The SpaceX CRS-31 mission for NASA will advance cold welding techniques for on-the-spot spacecraft hull repairs KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine a spacecraft ...

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 ...

And that is cold welding. In cold welding, as the term implies, you don’t need to fuse metals together to join them. But as processes go, there are some requirements.

Firstly, to observe the cold welding processes, scientists isolated the metals within a vacuum so that no atmospheric atoms interfered with the equipment. This means they don't yet know if the ...

"The cold welding process is a metallurgical process that is known to occur when two relatively smooth and clean surfaces of metal are brought together to reform atomic bonds," said Sandia ...