KYOTO (Reuters) - The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

Nov. 6 (UPI) --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 ...

Kyoto University / Sumitomo University 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 ...

The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was yesterday launched into space, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration. LignoSat, developed by Kyoto ...

The satellite is a cube roughly 4 inches by 4 inches, with wooden panels as well as plastic parts. If all goes well, the satellite will be placed into orbit by the end of the year, roughly 250 ...

KYOTO - The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Nov 5, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration. LignoSat, developed ...

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 ...

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