Finns on the day of cosmonautics reported a desire to launch a Woodsat nanaste toward orbit. The device, fully made of wood, is a cube area of 600 cc.cm – that is, with a length of 10 cm.
Developers from the company Arctic Astronautics want that the device “collected data on the behavior and wear resistance of plywood with a sharp drop of temperatures, in a vacuum and increased radiation,” writes RIA Novosti. So scholars will find out whether it is worth using a tree in space structures.
The plywood satellite can be removed by the end of the year from the starting site in New Zealand. For this, inciators from Finland want to use the Electron Rocket produced by the American company Rocket Lab. As expected, the device weighing 1 kg will rotate on the polar orbit.