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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

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[–] N00dle@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

no living creatures to cause it to rot

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.

[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

From the makers of Snakes on a Plane…Bugs on a Satellite

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Feels like one of the few instances of humans doing something about issues before shit hits the roof.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On this episode of Gilligan's Island, the professor makes a satellite.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Out of bamboo and coconuts. And Gilligan has to power it with a stationary bicycle.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Launched with a comical slingshot made from two palm trees roughly shaping a V form.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I didn't quite imagine Japanese to be the Wookies of our world, but the surprise is welcome.

EDIT: Oh, but then Corellians made lots of wooden stuff too.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

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.