Space-made weld scrutinised in ESA lab

Comparing the in-space weld to its terrestrial equivalent

ESA engineers have focused microscopes, hardness testers and an X-ray computer aided tomography machine onto a special aluminium weld just a single centimetre across – the historic result of the very first autonomous welding to be performed in space, and the first ESA has been involved with.

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