Got Wood?.....................
Why would I want a porous material between me and a tremendously cold/hot vacuum?
Sustainability another of their commie dreams
It might not be bad for meteoroid resistance, because the fibers would be less prone to having nice clean holes blasted through. But otherwise, sustainability? That part’s good and nuts. :^)
This looks like a job for the big bad wolf.
NASA is currently negotiating with IKEA as a potential contractor for the next generation of satellites.
I remember looking into the Mercury capsule of Alan Shepard hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum...A panel with switches, knobs and such was what looked like walnut wood....
I had a wood stove once, but it burned up
“Surprisingly, wood has proven to be an eco-friendly choice for space instruments. Its easy combustibility makes it a more environmentally friendly alternative to metal satellites, offering a promising step towards sustainable space exploration.”
I agree that wood will burn up in the atmosphere, but most people don’t know that wood is an EXCELLENT fire block and is often used for that role, at least based on my extensive experience in construction.
Their Sustainability is wasting millions of gallons of water washing garbage so they can call it recycling
“Wooden satellites, however, immediately combust upon re-entry, becoming a small cloud of carbon dioxide and water vapor as the wood panels incinerate and burn, leaving no potentially harmful particulates behind.”
What? I thought carbon dioxide was the world’s most dangerous pollutant!
Save a tree, build a wooden spaceship
NASA has done extensive materials testing the easy and smart way, by getting boards covered with rectangles of different materials, dozens at a time, sending them into space for a while, then bringing them back for analysis.
Structural integrity; heat, cold, and radiation resistance; strength testing for tension, compression, and torsion; etc., etc.
Almost needless to say, very few materials came back unscathed. However, it would be very good science to do this test with all sorts of different woods.
Maybe we could make houses out of wood?/s
Now next make a ROCKET out of wood and do not use present day rocket fuel.