Unique among the myriad of items the mission carried is the first satellite made from wood, a palm-sized cube called the ...

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

Will wood soon become an integral part of space exploration? A world first has just paved the way for this surprising ...

In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 ...

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

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

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

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

If we can use materials that humans can make and bring them to outer space, people will be able to create a sustainable ...

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

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.

After four years in development, a wood satellite developed by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese logging and ...