LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...
The satellite is a small box with four-inch sides, made of wood, according to Space.com, and will run tests on wood’s capabilities in space. Meghan Everett, NASA’s deputy chief scientist for ...
"Early 1900s airplanes were made of wood," Kyoto University forest science professor Koji Murata told Reuters. "A wooden satellite should be feasible, too." Due to a lack of water and oxygen in ...
The first satellite made of wood is now orbiting the earth in space. This was made public by the US space agency NASA, and the LignoSat was launched from the International Space Station (ISS ...