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 ...
Push two metal plates together on Earth and nothing happens. Take those same plates into the vacuum of space and they can fuse into a single piece of metal. This strange phenomenon is called cold ...
Enter ASTROBEAT, an innovative experiment sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, poised to advance spacecraft repairs using cold welding—a technique akin to patching a ...
Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) is a controlled short-circuiting variant of gas metal arc welding (GMAW) characterised by a precisely timed wire retraction that minimises heat input, reduces spatter and ...