Japanese researchers have launched the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, to explore wood's potential as an ...

The mission is meant as a demonstration of the capacities of this humble material to live long and prosper in the vacuum of ...

A tiny cube made of magnolia wood is headed to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be deployed into space to test how it withstands the extreme environment. Researchers hope this ...

LignoSat is a four-inch (10cm) cube packed with advanced electronics and sensors. But instead of being constructed from ...

In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 miles away, researchers will study whether wood is sturdy enough for space.

There, it will orbit for six months, testing the potential feasibility of wood as a building material in space. "With timber, a material we can produce by ourselves, we will be able to build ...

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

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

KYOTO, Japan (WKRC) - The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space in an effort to understand if wood could someday be a "space-grade" material. Many space agencies have hopes ...

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 ...

STORY: The world's first wooden satellite, built by scientists in Japan, headed into space Monday atop a SpaceX rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It'll stay in orbit for six months ...