Futurism

Japanese Scientists Show Off World’s First Wooden Satellite

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A team ...
Popular Science

World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths

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Yahoo

World’s first wooden satellite launched by Japan on a six-month mission

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historic moment unfolded as the world’s first wooden satellite, the brainchild of Japanese researchers, soared into space, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The First Is Set to Launch Next Year

Researchers plan to launch the wooden artifical satellite in summer 2024. JAXA American and Japanese scientists are preparing to launch the world’s first wooden artificial satellite next summer as an ...
Yahoo

World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Takao Doi holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto ...
Inverse

The World’s First Wooden Satellite Could Be the Key To Solving the Space Debris Problem

A satellite made almost entirely out of wood, a first, reached space this week. Researchers hope LignoSat will pave the way for more uses of wood in space. Artwork for the LignoSat mission. One major ...
BBC

World's first wood-panelled satellite launched into space

The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars.
Houston Chronicle

NASA is launching the world's first wooden spacecraft next year

"At the end of their life, satellites re-enter the atmosphere," Koji Murata, a researchers at Kyoto University, told CNN about LignoSat. "The difference is, the wood in the LignoSat will burn up and ...
Gizmodo

What to Know About World’s First Wooden Satellite, Set to Launch This Year

Japan's wooden satellite could solve the space trash problem by burning up completely on re-entry, leaving no debris and reducing environmental impacts. Reading time 2 minutes A group of researchers ...
Digital Trends

Watch the space station send the first wooden satellite into orbit

The world’s first wooden satellite has been deployed to Earth orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS Research X account posted footage of a trio of CubeSats, including Japan’s ...
Scientific American

First Wooden Satellite Will Test ‘Green’ Space Exploration

Researchers unveiled the world’s first wooden satellite last month, billing it as clearing a path for more uses of wood in outer space. The material will be more sustainable and less polluting than ...

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