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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by TrainedMonkey on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:08PM (#33697967)
To add to that - vacuum can also mess up sealed components that were manufactured at 1ATM. This is mostly a problem with electrolytic batteries and capacitors which puff up when the atmospheric pressure is removed. For batteries mitigations include manufacturing at low pressures or constraining the expansion mechanically.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by ramesh31 on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:45PM (#33700753)
Pretty sure a GoPro underwater housing would be perfectly capable of maintaining 1ATM in space. They are designed to handle many times that in external pressure.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:58AM (#33706498)
The 1atm in space is pushing in the opposite direction. But yeah, if it's good to 5atm in pressure odds are it's good to 1atm in vacuum
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