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Old 08-February-2005, 10:13 PM
joema joema is offline
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My guess is there's not much ferrous material used in most space vehicles. Weight is so critical they're generally built from aluminum, magnesium, titanium, or even aluminium-lithium alloys, all of which are non-ferrous.

Lauch costs can be over $10,000 per pound (that's DOUBLE the price of pure gold), it pays to use exotic materials to reduce launcher and payload weight. Most of these are non-ferrous.
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