Japan Wants To Send Wooden Satellites Into Orbit By 2023 To Reduce Space Junk – Mashable India

It has recently come to light that a Japanese company and Kyoto University are planning to develop wooden satellites to shoot into orbit by 2023 to get rid of space junk.
As reported by BBC, the partnership between Kyoto University and the Japanese company will start experimenting with different types of wood on Earth. “We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere…

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