Magnet in space?

Question

Do magnets work in the weightlessness of space?

law2k · Answer

Yes, NASA has also developed a magnetic docking aid for the ISS. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19960025623

fleischtester · Answer

Good Morning, Yes, why shouldn't they work? Greetings

robertliebling · Answer

What reason do you think there could be for them not to work? A magnetic field does not require a gravitational field.

pupsnase2 · Answer

Yes do it

burkeundco · Answer

Yes, because electromagnetic interactions do not require a medium for their propagation. This is why light waves and radio waves also work in space.

pateralfonso · Answer

Of course. What do magnets have to do with space?

dompfeifer · Answer

First of all, magnets obviously work everywhere, why not?

Secondly, the so-called "weightlessness of space" is a myth, at least in the literal sense.

In contrast to space, falling bodies in our everyday earthly life are subject to significant drag from the surrounding air . And these bodies all land relatively quickly on the ground. In the airless vastness of space, however, all detached bodies are in free fall without a propulsion system, possibly remaining in their respective circular orbits for millions of years. The bodies are not without weight; on the contrary, they are solely at the mercy of gravitational fields. The term "weightlessness" is grossly misleading. And this has nothing to do with magnetism anyway.