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Is steel in spacecraft Ulysses?

Ik iron was too heavy but could steel bolts have been used. I can see iron dissolving at surface when to be a danger it needs to reach the core of sun.. But so does steel go deeper in(w.e alloy turned from iron)..I wanna know which would be worse iron..or upgraded iron(steel) and if the steel would have worse effects than normal iron..Im sure if we used iron we used steel

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Reach the core of the sun? No material can even get past the corona of the sun, where did you hear Ulysses went to the core? The spacecraft Ulysses orbits the sun at about 5 au. that's 5 times the earths orbit.. Steel is used instead of Iron because steel is much stronger and therefore you can use smaller 'bolts' to accomplish the same thing, reducing the weight. As far as most structures are concerned steel is better than plain Iron in every category. So Iron is worse i guess.
Steel might have been used in some bolts sure. But.....are you under the impression that Ulysses was ever intended to crash into the Sun or something? You know it wasn't right? It was launched (in the 1980's) to study the Sun. But....uh.....not by crashing into it. Ulysses was even sent out to use Jupiter as a gravitational assist. We are closer to the Sun than Ulysses is..... Even if it did go crash into the Sun though there is absolutely no way that ANY material, natural or manmade, could survive intact all the way to the core of a star. It takes photons of LIGHT something like 100,000 years just to make it out from the core of the Sun to the surface because it is so dense. How do you propose a metal probe making it back the other way? Would it have worse effects than what? The effects, no matter what it was made out of, would be that as it got CLOSE to the Sun it would vaporize. No matter what it was made out of though it would have no affect whatsoever on the Sun. Every single element, without exception, that exists on the Earth and everywhere else in our solar system also exists in the Sun already, in far greater quantities. The planets and Sun all formed out of the same nebula at the same time. The Sun just got massive enough that fusion began and it became a star. There is already more iron in the Sun than there is everything on Earth. If you took every single atom of every element there is on the Earth it would still not add up to even a fraction of the total amount of iron in the Sun.

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