• Engineers must design specifically how a satellite will be held together
• Glues, polymers, and any biochemical compounds that work well on Earth are known to fail much more quickly in space
• Nuts, bolts, and screws must be secure on a satellite
• Connecting pieces can be made of many structural materials
• Because the total amount of material used as connecting material is small, these materials can be heavier than those used in other places on the satellite
• Some examples of durable materials are aluminum, steel, Kevlar, lead, copper, and Teflon
• These materials vary in their malleability, which is their ability to be shaped and formed, and their softness
• Steel cables often used to hold satellites in place within rockets