Wooden Satellites

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Is it possible that the natives are finally becoming intelligent ? All of the small communications satellites which provide internet service to remote regions would be the logical place to start using wood . The 10 % light pollution number was new to me . Don`t recall reading that when I first heard about the project about a year ago .
 
Wonder what kind of joinery they are gonna use on these puppies! No nails, screws or anything else like that, right!
 
jrista said:
Wonder what kind of joinery they are gonna use on these puppies! No nails, screws or anything else like that, right!
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Well it is a joint effort between NASA and the Japanese so maybe they'll utilize some of that famous Japanese joinery that looks impossible.
 
It interesting that they are choosing Magnolia wood. I would have thought to use the hardest, toughest wood possible. (examples: Desert Ironwood, White Oak, Rock Maple etc. )
 
KMCloonan said:
It interesting that they are choosing Magnolia wood. I would have thought to use the hardest, toughest wood possible. (examples: Desert Ironwood, White Oak, Rock Maple etc. )
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I imagine you would want some degree of flex. The harder and more rigid, the less resilient, I would think.


The thing I wonder is...they had the woods exposed to the vacuum of space, but still in a compartment in the ISS. I really wonder how a wood satellite is going to handle the raw exposure of actually being IN space, bathed by sunlight all the time, bathed by cosmic radiation all the time, heck even immersed in the strong EM field of earth itself (i.e. van allen belts). What about impacts from all the crap floating around earth?
 
At least they're using up boring woods. If they announce they're gonna use HRB or Ambonya we gotta all meet up for a protest. Anywhere but Portland.

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jrista said:
I imagine you would want some degree of flex. The harder and more rigid, the less resilient, I would think.


The thing I wonder is...they had the woods exposed to the vacuum of space, but still in a compartment in the ISS. I really wonder how a wood satellite is going to handle the raw exposure of actually being IN space, bathed by sunlight all the time, bathed by cosmic radiation all the time, heck even immersed in the strong EM field of earth itself (i.e. van allen belts). What about impacts from all the crap floating around earth?
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Oh yeah it's a cute idea but makes little sense in execution. And as far as it being "safer" are we pretending it won't be filled with metal components? 🥴
Bet someone still gets a peace prize for it though…
 
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