Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem – Gizmodo Australia

Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet not so cool for space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are teaming up to create the worlds first wooden satellites by 2023.
You might think metal satellites burn up on re-entry, but as it turns out, its not that simple. We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earths atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will…

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