The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution::The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
Soon termites will evolve for space environment. On a serious note this does seem cool. The amount of satellites going to burn like disposable starlink ones will be an issue. This prototype is small, but this would be good for cubesats.
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On this episode of Gilligan’s Island, the professor makes a satellite.
Out of bamboo and coconuts. And Gilligan has to power it with a stationary bicycle.
Launched with a comical slingshot made from two palm trees roughly shaping a V form.
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The idea of an Asian country launching a wooden satellite sounds like a racist Simpsons joke from the 1990s. What a time to be alive.
Reading the title I was like man the Onion is getting a little edgy until I read the source. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Soon termites will evolve for space environment. On a serious note this does seem cool. The amount of satellites going to burn like disposable starlink ones will be an issue. This prototype is small, but this would be good for cubesats.
Feels like one of the few instances of humans doing something about issues before shit hits the roof.
From the makers of Snakes on a Plane…Bugs on a Satellite