Aluminum rockets and steel skyscrapers; slick high-speed shuttles and glassy facades: that’s how “the future” has been imagined for decades. But that’s not what Koji Murata imagines. A researcher at ...
The 2016 documentary Fight for Space — streaming now on Peacock — features a panel of experts including Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, and Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell as they discuss the challenges of ...
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 of ...
A satellite made almost entirely out of wood, a first, reached space this week. Researchers hope LignoSat will pave the way for more uses of wood in space. Artwork for the LignoSat mission. One major ...
Researchers plan to launch the wooden artifical satellite in summer 2024. JAXA American and Japanese scientists are preparing to launch the world’s first wooden artificial satellite next summer as an ...
Researchers unveiled the world’s first wooden satellite last month, billing it as clearing a path for more uses of wood in outer space. The material will be more sustainable and less polluting than ...
In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that ...
Researchers unveiled the world’s first wooden satellite last month, billing it as clearing a path for more uses of wood in outer space. The material will be more sustainable and less polluting than ...
It's hard to know for sure, given how some of these things are secret, but the current count puts the number of satellites in orbit at over 10,000. Only one of them is, at least so far, made of wood: ...