Sounds like a radical achievement if they pull it off.
Nobody else could say they built a wooden space machine and put it into orbit successfully
NASA and Japan to launch world's 1st wooden satellite as soon as 2024. Why?
Submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to astronomy@mander.xyz
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RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sedathems@mander.xyz 11 months ago
The dream of wooden pirate starships becomes reality!
MamboGator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The cube mockup looks like someone recently watched Hellraiser IV.
Batman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m curious what kind of fasteners they use
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
Self-sealing stembolts.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Probably dowels, maybe some glue. Doubt they would use threaded fasteners for a demonstration like this.
Batman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Darn. Could have been big ammunition in the Phillips vs straighthead war.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Don’t metal ones burn up fine?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, actually. Metal doesn’t burn up, it melts to slag and disintegrates, but the metal particles don’t become gas the way carbon does. Then you just have a bunch of a space debris and reactive, aerosolized metal particles knocking around the upper atmostphere. Aluminum Oxide ash can float to the ground, or it can cause ozone decomposition. We’re not entirely sure which is worse based on the amount coming back from satellites, but the number of satellites we’re sending up is increasing rapidly. So it wouldn’t hurt if they were a little less toxic.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
For the most part, yes. The problem is pollution, like aluminum oxide.
Here is an article that explains better than I ever could: space.com/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-det…