alt Hacker NewsIt is not obvious to me that there is no specialized type of paint that would be appropriate.
Doing the whole module sounds like a lot of mass though.
It is not obvious to me that there is no specialized type of paint that would be appropriate.
Doing the whole module sounds like a lot of mass though.
It's hard vacuum on one side. There's a reason the word "hard" is used to describe it.
A few years ago a Soyuz was improperly drilled during manufacture. This was patched with a super epoxy... and then began leaking air on orbit. Paint won't seal what a super aerospace epoxy failed to seal.