However, this is one small stump for man with perhaps a more giant leap intended for the future use of wood in space. “In our first conversations, Dr. Doi proposed we build wooden housing on the ...
With a 50-year plan of planting trees and building timber houses on the moon and Mars, Doi’s team decided to develop a NASA-certified wooden satellite to prove wood is a space-grade material.
The palm-sized LignoSat, developed by Kyoto University and the construction company Sumitomo Forestry, reached the ISS on board a SpaceX mission. After about a month, the satellite will be ...
There are reports that an American-Iranian journalist has been detained by Tehran. And, we’ll tell you why Japanese researchers have launched a wooden satellite into space.