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Japan is developing wooden satellites to send into orbit by 2023 in an effort to cut down on space junk

Kyoto University is teaming up with Japanese forestry company Sumitomo Forestry to develop a wooden satellite to send into orbit.

"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 for many years [...] Eventually it will affect the environment of the Earth," Doi said. Space junk and debris is becoming a growing concern among experts. "Space debris is increasingly of concern, and the collision of two massive space debris objects – ranging from one to ten metric tons – pose the greatest environmental risk," Daniel Oltrogge, director at the Center for Space Standards and Innovation told

 

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Wonder how wooden can survive in departing from the atmosphere. With a balloon perhaps(?)

Down with the junk, hello firewood.

Great, now we have space splinters

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