Japan has successfully launched the world's first satellite made of wood. The spacecraft, dubbed LignoSat, came about as a collaboration between Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry ...

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The first wooden satellite was launched by Japan on Tuesday. Credits: Royce Bair / CC BY NC ND 2.0 The first wooden satellite was launched by Japan on Tuesday with the goal of testing the ...

They will also study wood’s potential to shield semiconductors from space radiation. "With timber, a material we can produce by ourselves, we will be able to build houses, live and work in space ...

The world’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, was launched by Japanese scientists on Tuesday to understand the feasibility of timber in space. Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science. transcript 3, 2, 1. ... and liftoff. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said, as part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Scientists at Japan’s ...

Japan's wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a mission to prove that wood can be a viable material for use in space. LignoSat is a 10 cm cubesat made ...

Japanese researchers just sent the world’s first wooden satellite to space, as reported by CNN. LignoSat, named after the Latin word for wood, was developed by Kyoto University and a company ...

The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration. LignoSat, developed by ...