Tough paint

Who cares?

We should stop giving his Ponzi scheme airtime. He's living out his bond villian fantasies with other people's money - it'll end in tears, I tell you!

Longer than the camera sensor!

Apparently solar wind and cosmic particles will break all the carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds after about a year.

All the plastic, carbon-fibre and upholstery will disintegrate pretty quickly leaving just the metal and ?glass.

I don't suppose they bothered to fill the tyres with nitrogen either.

And if the stereo is blasting out David Bowie, how would we know out there in a vacuum ?.

Surprised if it is as bad as that (not that I have any data), but satellites last ten years or more and must have plenty of polymers and elastomers. Obviously, they can and presumably do shield memory and microprocessors, but you can't shield solar panel wiring, etc. (Unless that is all strung on ceramic insulators).