Impact Detection Processor
Multi-Sensor Impact Detection + Triage Software
The Impact Detection Processor is a multi-sensor fusion software package hosted on radiation-hardened NOR flash that detects, localizes, and triages micrometeoroid and orbital debris impacts. Operating at a 100 Hz update rate with a 2 W power requirement, the system fuses acoustic, pressure, and acceleration telemetry to triangulate strike locations, classify damage into small, medium, or large severity tiers, and automatically initiate alerts, compartment isolation, or repair scheduling. Built with a 500,000-hour mean time between failures, it operates across a 100-year design lifetime to generate empirical impact archives that inform future structural shielding design.
Multi-sensor fusion processor (acoustic + pressure + accel) detecting, localising, classifying, and triaging MMOD impact events.
Purpose
Multi-sensor fusion processor (acoustic + pressure + accel) detecting, localising, classifying, and triaging MMOD impact events.
Context
Child of L2-MMD-DET within the Lunar Ark system
Principles
- ▸Fuses inputs from L3-MMD-DET-ACOUS, -PRES, -ACCEL
- ▸Triangulation for impact localisation
- ▸Severity classification (small/medium/large)
- ▸Automatic response triggers: alert, isolate, schedule repair
- ▸Long-mission impact statistics archived
Typical implementations
- ▸NASA HVIT impact analysis methodology
- ▸Industrial event-detection fusion
- ▸Aerospace FDIR systems
Lunar considerations
- ▸100-year mission data informs future shielding design
- ▸ML-augmented classification
- ▸L1-DVT historical archive
Specifications
Functional
| primary function | Multi-sensor fusion processor (acoustic + pressure + accel) detecting, localising, classifying, and triaging MMOD impact events. |
| update rate hz | 100 |
Physical
| mass kg | 0 |
| materials | Code on rad-hard NOR flash |
| vacuum compatibility | True |
Operational
| power consumption w | 2 |
| thermal range c | -40, 70 |
| lifetime years | 100 |
| mtbf hours | 500000 |
Interfaces
Provides
- Impact event triage + repair commands
- Repair priority
- Impact alerts
Requires
- Multi-sensor inputs
- Time reference
Cite this entry
Lunar Ark Codex. "Impact Detection Processor" (L3-MMD-DET-PROC). Retrieved 10 September 2026, from https://lunarark.com/entry/L3-MMD-DET-PROC
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