A Japanese logging company and Kyoto University will develop the world’s first ever wooden satellite launched in 2023. Sumitomo Forestry announced as space waste is turning into one of the problems most challenging space, they were researching tree growth and food. use wood to build spaceships and satellites for space. According to a report from the BBC, the Japanese company announced that the fibrous structural material from the forest would not release the harmful substances into the atmosphere and the eco-friendly satellite initiative will help reduce space waste pollution.
Kyoto University professor and Japanese astronaut Takao Doi told BBC sources that the company was deeply concerned about the impact of the satellites re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. and they burn and form small pieces of alumina that float in the upper atmosphere and cause pollution. Furthermore, in his statement, he affirmed that space pollution was damaging the Earth ‘s environment.
He stated that the company had started work on the engineering model of the satellite, and in the days after that they will manufacture the flight mode. Doi had visited the International Space Station (ISS) and examined nearly 23,000 identified human spacecraft that were flying over space and could not be disposed of. According to Doi, while about 2,500 rockets exploded in space, debris such as the rockets was seen dead to nuts and grinding bolts.
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[A computer-generated image representing space debris as could be seen from high Earth orbit. The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in geosynchronous Earth orbit and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit. Image via NASA]
Space waste pollution
It is estimated that 20,000 objects – including satellites and space debris – are accumulating low orbit on Earth and are suddenly threatened by the dangers of a private collision with the orbital satellite. According to a new study published by the university of colorado, the most effective way to solve the space waste problem would be technological or regulatory control of the satellites launched in the future.
“Space is a common resource, but companies don’t take into account the cost of their satellites when they decide to launch it,” said economist Matthew Burgess, a CIRES Partner , and co-author of the new paper. “By reducing the risk of satellite collision and debris in the future, an annual tax would rise to approximately $ 235,000 per square foot satellite worth of the satellite industry by 2040,” suggested the author of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
[Wooden satellite. Credit: Twitter/@kitsatellite]
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