The plan is to put it into orbit in early December, according to Koji Murata, a professor of forest and biomaterials science at Kyoto University in Japan who worked on the satellite. If successful ...

Japan’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, has arrived at the ISS aboard a SpaceX capsule, marking a unique step toward sustainable space technology.

The world's first wooden satellite, created by Japanese researchers, has been launched to test timber for space applications.

After four years in development, a wood satellite developed by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese logging ...