Finland Beats Japan: WISA Woodsat World’s First Wooden Satellite
According to NASA, our space is riddled with more than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or "space junk," as tracked by the Department of Defense's global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Albeit the junk is too small for tracking sensors, they are large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions. Moreover, since both the debris and spacecraft are traveling at extremely high speeds (approximately 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit), an encounter with a tiny piece of space debris can destroy missions.
Space Debris Toxicity
When we think of space junk, we look at metal bodies of disintegrating spaceships and other machinery. Space debris is non-biodegradable that may stay in space forever until such time it falls back on earth and burns up. According to the United Nations F...