JAXA and Japanese space programs

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
A very remarkable project.
Japan plans a 2023 launch of the world's first satellite made out of wood.
Awesome solution if something can be developed with organic materials like wood.
A very remarkable project.
Japan plans a 2023 launch of the world's first satellite made out of wood.
Wood debris in space travelling at 15-20k mph doesn’t address the high speed collision dangers and likely does little about reflection screwing with earth based telescope image acquisition. Wasn’t aware about the alumina contamination issue in the upper atmosphere.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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Today 2021-03-22, the ELSA-d was launched from Baikonur. The ELSA-d is a spacecraft from the Japanese Astroscale, headquartered in Tokyo, and it is created to demonstrate how to handle with space debris.

 

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
Today 2021-03-22, the ELSA-d was launched from Baikonur. The ELSA-d is a spacecraft from the Japanese Astroscale, headquartered in Tokyo, and it is created to demonstrate how to handle with space debris.

A good idea and important for future space operations. I wonder about the relative ratio of magnetic/non-magnetic junk up there?
 
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