Alteon@lemmy.worldM to Mechanical Engineering@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

Astronauts attached hundreds of material samples to the outside of the International Space Station and left them exposed to space for years

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Astronauts attached hundreds of material samples to the outside of the International Space Station and left them exposed to space for years

Alteon@lemmy.worldM to Mechanical Engineering@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

This image is from Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 2, part of STS-105 mission in 2001. Full report is at https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20070002707/downloads/20070002707.pdf

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41 is the number of polymers tested in the PEACE, the whole MISSE program involves several material classes with more than 1000 samples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_International_Space_Station_Experiment

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