{"id":115598,"date":"2021-06-17T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=115598"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:19:00","slug":"first-wooden-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-wooden-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"First wooden satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following space agency has proposed to send first wooden satellite, named as WISA Woodsat, into the space?<br><\/strong>a) NASA<br>b) ISRO<br>c) ESA<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>WISA Woodsat will be the world\u2019s first wooden satellite to sent to space by European Space Agency (ESA).<\/li><li>European Space Agency (ESA) has planned to put the WISA Woodsat on Earth\u2019s orbit by the end of this year.<\/li><li>The mission of the satellite is to test the applicability of wooden materials like plywood in spacecraft structures and expose it to extreme space conditions.<\/li><li>The satellite will be tested in extreme space conditions as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation, for an extended period of time.<\/li><li>It will be launched to space by the end of 2021 with a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the Mahia Peninsula launch complex in New Zealand.<\/li><li>The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.<\/li><li>WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm nano satellite built up from standardised boxes and surface panels made from plywood.<\/li><li>Designers have placed the wood in a thermal vacuum chamber to keep dry when its in space.<\/li><li>They have also added a very thin aluminium oxide layer to minimise vapour coming from the wood and to protect it from erosive effects of atomic oxygen.<\/li><li>Woodsat\u2019s only non-wooden external parts are corner aluminium rails used for its deployment into space and a metal selfie stick.<\/li><li>The selfie stick with its camera can take pictures of the satellite and look how the plywood is behaving.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-from-new-zealand\/article34819907.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-from-new-zealand\/article34819907.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following space agency has proposed to send first wooden satellite, named as WISA Woodsat, into the space?a) NASAb) ISROc) ESAd) None of theseAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- WISA Woodsat will be the world\u2019s first wooden satellite to sent to space by European Space Agency (ESA). 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