Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe 8 set to orbit this
summer 8 has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
Robin McKee, The Guardian, February 17, 2024
[www.theguardian.com]

Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The
First Is Set to Launch Next Year
NASA and Japan plan to test a biodegradable
satellite made of wood, which burns up more
easily than metal on reentry
by Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, November 20, 2023
[www.smithsonianmag.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)