this! i work in satellite engineering and people think “oh, it’s a vacuum, it’s the easiest environment possible!” nope! space is a simultaneously high temperature, low temperature, corrosive, dark, bright, irradiated, debris-filled, empty, still, and windy environment that’s always moving. oh- and if anything breaks, you might as well send up another satellite because it’s never getting fixed.
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this! i work in satellite engineering and people think “oh, it’s a vacuum, it’s the easiest environment possible!” nope! space is a simultaneously high temperature, low temperature, corrosive, dark, bright, irradiated, debris-filled, empty, still, and windy environment that’s always moving. oh- and if anything breaks, you might as well send up another satellite because it’s never getting fixed.