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 ...
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6 (UPI) --The first wood-panel satellite is on a SpaceX flight ... Advertisement Officials said the panels were made from a type of magnolia tree and did not use screws or glue to put it together.
Unique among the myriad of items the mission carried is the first satellite made from wood, a palm-sized cube called the LignoStat. Developed by Kyoto University researchers and the Japanese ...
"If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk's SpaceX." LignoSat is made of honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native to Japan, and has been made using a ...
“If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.” The researchers found that honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native in Japan and traditionally ...
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 ...
"If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk's SpaceX." The researchers found that honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native in Japan and traditionally used for ...