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Tech made from trees? New Japanese firm creating world’s first wooden satellites – SYFY WIRE
If we were attempting to engineer a satellite that would be deploying into orbit, probably the last material we’d choose might be wood. But this is certainly not…
If we were attempting to engineer a satellite that would be deploying into orbit, probably the last material we’d choose might be wood. But this is certainly not stopping a new startup firm in Japan from doing exactly that, using a clandestine approach to take trees into outer space that they’re quite not ready to share with the world.
Yes, Sumitomo Forestry is joining forces with Kyoto University to conceive and create the planet’s first usable satellite built from one of Mother Nature’s most abundant…
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