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World’s First Wooden Satellite Sent to Space – Reuters

The satellite is part of efforts to include more renewable materials in space exploration and also minimise the environmental impact at the end of its life


Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto
Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. Photo Reuters

 

The world’s first-ever wooden satellite, developed by scientists in Japan, was launched into space on Tuesday as part of efforts to include more renewable materials in space exploration, Reuters reported.

The palm-sized satellite, named LignoSat, will be flown to the International Space Station on a SpaceX mission, and later released into orbit about 400 km (250 miles) above the Earth.

Its makers hope the satellite will prove wood is a space-grade material, and “more durable in space than on Earth because there’s no water or oxygen that would rot or inflame it.”

A wooden satellite also minimises the environmental impact at the end of its life, the researchers say.

Read the full report: Reuters

 

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Vishakha Saxena

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