Japanese scientists are heralding a "cutting-edge technology" that could fuel humans' expansion into space: wood. As we look ...

T he world's first wooden satellite has been successfully launched into space and arrived at the International Space Station ...

Japan's LignoSat aims to mitigate the growing space junk problem, as well as environmental risks associated with atmospheric ...

The tiny Japanese CubeSat was launched from Florida with the aim of bringing the space industry into a more sustainable ...

A SpaceX rocket carried the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, into space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

Japan launched LignoSat, the first wooden satellite, to test eco-friendly materials for space en route to more sustainable ...

Space has a major sustainability problem. When satellites made mostly of aluminum die fall back down to earth, they combust ...

The satellite is made from magnolia wood, which was historically used for samurai sheaths. The world’s first wooden satellite ...

Japan’s LignoSat, the first wooden satellite, will orbit Earth to test wood’s potential as a space-grade material.

The first wood-panel satellite is on a SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, where it will test the durability of ...

The world's first wooden satellite has successfully travelled to space in an effort to understand if wood could someday be a "space-grade" material.