Abstract

The exploration and mining of minerals on extraterrestrial bodies in the solar system: planets, moons, planetoids, asteroids and comets requires the development of fundamentally new primary explosives that are not subject to spontaneous detonation during vibration and static discharges when launched from the ground. Available detonators do not fully meet these requirements and pose a danger to future space missions, therefore, are considered undesirable as payload on board. Therefore, the synthesis, research and testing of new energetic materials sensitive exclusively to the selected wavelength, duration and energy of the exciting laser pulses is of particular relevance.

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