The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles

Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution::The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    The idea of an Asian country launching a wooden satellite sounds like a racist Simpsons joke from the 1990s. What a time to be alive.

    • swearengen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      Reading the title I was like man the Onion is getting a little edgy until I read the source. Truth is stranger than fiction.