Small wooden satellite heads to International Space Station
The first wood-panel satellite is on a SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, where it will test the durability of wood in space. Japanese researchers built a small satellite weighing about ...
Japan Launches World's First Wooden Satellite LignoSat, Know Its Role in Space Junk Reduction
LignoSat, the world’s first wooden satellite, was launched on November 5, 2024, aboard a SpaceX rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with Japan’s Kyoto University and the Japan ...
Japan blasts world’s first wooden satellite into space – with a little help from SpaceX
Data will be sent from the satellite to Japanese researchers to determine if it can withstand extreme changes in temperature.