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 ...

Here's a headline you never thought you'd read: Japan is about to team up with the U.S. to launch a satellite made of wood, the Guardian reports. No, it's not a wacky sci-fi plot or a publicity stunt.

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 ...

Imagine a satellite constructed of wood rather than metal. This innovative concept is on the brink of becoming a reality, with scientists aiming to launch the world's first wooden satellite later ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A joint venture between Japan’s Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University could result ...

Now, NASA says that the tiny satellite, dubbed LignoSat, was finally released into the wild last month, in an experiment that will explore the viability of using wood in space — which if ...

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 ...

The first satellite made of wood is now orbiting the earth in space. This was made public by the US space agency NASA, and the LignoSat was launched from the International Space Station (ISS ...

What is LignoSat? “LignoSat”, a fusion of “ligno” (the Latin word for wood) and “satellite”, is the result of approximately four years of collaborative research and development by a ...

KYOTO--A cube-shaped wooden satellite named LignoSat has been unveiled before it is launched into orbit, the first time timber has been utilized for the purpose. Kyoto University and Sumitomo ...

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood drew attention to Elon Musk-led SpaceX‘s latest operational metrics on Sunday, highlighting the company’s progress in reducing satellite internet costs through its ...