JAXA’s First Wooden Satellite Deploys from Space Station – NASA
JAXA’s First Wooden Satellite Deploys from Space Station – NASA
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I’m really interested what the results of wood in space will be.
Like is it actually viable?
Hopefully it won’t turn out that it wooden go…
This reminds me of one of the original ideas for Alien 3 in which monks lived in a space monastery made out of wood.
“Why do satellites float?”
“Because they’re… made of wood?”
“Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to conventional satellites.”
I am just boggled here.
Are we having a satellite-metal shortage? Aluminum and steel are some of the most common elements on Earth. If this is the best they can offer as a summary I get the vibes that this is either completely wrong as to the goals of the experiment, or it’s all for publicity and this was like, one of those “our school’s project got chosen to go to space!” events.
I assumed before reading that they want to lessen the amount of metal debris in orbit, but I have a feeling a wood splinter traveling at mach 12 will do just as much damage as almost anything else with mass.