Developed by U.S. startup Atomic-6, Space Armor uses advanced composite tiles to protect spacecraft from high-speed debris without blocking radio communications or generating large amounts of secondary debris.The technology launched October 20 aboard Portal Space Systems' Starburst-1 satellite on SpaceX's Bandwagon-5 mission.In ground testing, the armor successfully stopped projectiles traveling faster than 7 kilometers per second, while minimizing the fragments produced by impact.
