World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths
On Tuesday, the company’s 31st resupply mission for NASA delivered the world’s first satellite built using wooden parts. More specifically, LignoSat is made with honoki, a magnolia tree native to Japan whose wood was historically used to craft samurai sword sheaths.
The tiny Japanese CubeSat was launched from Florida with the aim of bringing the space industry into a more sustainable ...
Kyoto University and JAXA launched LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, on November 5, 2024. The satellite, ...
The world's first wooden satellite, a tiny Japanese spacecraft called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station ...
Japan has just launched the first-ever wooden satellite to space. The LignoSat cubesat was sent skyward by a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...
Japanese researchers built a small satellite weighing about two pounds. The satellite, LignoSat, will arrive at the ...
The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of ...
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World’s first wooden satellite launched by Japan on a six-month missionThe SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying over 6,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments, launched into orbit atop a ...
A SpaceX rocket carried the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, into space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...
The world's first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said Tuesday, part of a ...
Called LignoSat, after the Latin word for wood ... “If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch ...
LignoSat is designed to endure extreme temperatures and space radiation, measuring how wood withstands the space environment.
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