World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.

Theropean Space Agency (ESA) has wanted to put the world's first wooden satellite, WISA Woodsat, on Earth's circle before the current year's over. The mission of the satellite is to test the materialness of wooden materials like compressed wood in rocket designs and open it to outrageous space conditions, like warmth, cold, vacuum and radiation, for an all-inclusive timeframe. 

It will be dispatched to space before the finish of 2021 with a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the Mahia Peninsula dispatch complex in New Zealand. 

The satellite, planned and worked in Finland will circle at around 500-600 km elevation in a generally polar Sun-coordinated circle. WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm nano satellite developed from normalized boxes and surface boards produced using compressed wood, the very material that is found in a home improvement shop or to make furniture. 

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Planners have set the wood in a warm vacuum chamber to keep dry when its in space. They have additionally added a dainty aluminum oxide layer to limit fume coming from the wood and to shield it from erosive impacts of nuclear oxygen. 

Woodsat's just non-wooden outside parts are corner aluminum rails utilized for its sending into space and a metal selfie stick. The selfie stay with its camera can take photos of the satellite and look how the pressed wood is acting. 

It can show if there is any breaking on the pressed wood or any shading changing as the wood is relied upon to be obscured by the bright radiation of unfiltered daylight, said Jari Makinen, a Finnish essayist and telecaster who started the mission. 

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"The beneficial thing here is we have wound up conceiving a minimal expense gadget that could discover a wide range of additional utilizations, both in circle and down on the ground in test conditions," said Bruno Bras, materials engineer at ESA.