Also read: Japan successfully launches next-generation ... are creating the first biodegradable satellite that will be made of wood, called LignoSat. The team plans to use magnolia wood, which ...

Japan's wooden satellite, LignoSat, has been deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS).… LignoSat was sent to the ISS in November 2024 on a mission to demonstrate that wood ...

showed off their joint creation at a news conference here on May 28. The satellite will be handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on June 4 and is expected to be launched ...

Based on successes, they predicted wooden satellite launches in the mid 2020s (their announcement this month said 2023). Sumitomo engineers have not released what kind of wood(s) will finally be ...

LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

Only one of them is, at least so far, made of wood: the LignoSat. That's the name chosen by the satellite's maker, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for a small CubeSat that was ...

Researchers at Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Co. are designing an eco-friendly wooden satellite they plan to launch into space next year. If successful, this will be the first of its ...

The world's first wooden satellite developed by Japan has been exposed to space. The Lignosat was deployed alongside four cubesats from the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2024 to test ...

Together, they want to expand the potential of wood as a renewable resource and one day build wooden habitats in space, on the moon and even on Mars. The wooden satellite from Japan has now beaten ...

Unique And Sustainable The satellite, developed by Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry, is made from 10 cm long honoki magnolia wood panels and assembled with a Japanese wood ...