Re: report: ISS minor debris strike

"Henry Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Historically, the anxiety has been about objects in the 1-10 cm range:
> tracking becomes very unreliable below about 10 cm, and about 1 cm is
> the upper limit of the station's debris shielding.


That's the way I remember it too..

Now, is the SM's debris shielding in place. or is it part of the assembly
that's been 'deferred'?

It wasn't launched with the shielding. It was supposed to be added later.