Cold welding is a technique for joining two metals by pushing them together using high pressure.
Credit: ISS National Laboratory
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5. The cold welding demonstration aims to test technology that could be used for in-space repairs of spacecraft with hull breaches, for example, damage caused by micrometeoroids or space...
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