You’ve braved the weekend crowds at Ikea, and your new flat-packed, ready-to-assemble (RTA) cabinets are sitting in your kitchen. You eagerly tear open the boxes and get down to business. The ...
With a 50-year plan of planting trees and building timber houses on the moon and Mars, Doi’s team decided to develop a NASA-certified wooden satellite to prove wood is a space-grade material.
Researchers believe wood could one day replace certain metals in space technology, with potential applications for building colonies on the Moon or Mars. Unlike on Earth, wood is expected to endure ...
Photograph:(X) Researchers at the Kyoto University believe wood could one day replace certain metals in space technology, with potential applications for building colonies on the Moon or Mars. Japan ...
Many tools and vehicles that travel to space require extremely precise machining and building to ensure no cracks arise during cosmic travel, which raises many questions regarding wood's reliability.
Japan has just launched the first-ever wooden satellite to space. The LignoSat cubesat was sent skyward by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday and ...