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Japan just sent the world’s first wooden satellite to space
A Japanese company just built a wooden satellite and sent it to space in order to test the material’s durability. This could pave the way to more space-based structures made from wood.
LignoSat, named after the Latin word for wood, was developed by Kyoto University and a company called Sumitomo Forestry. “With timber, a material we can produce by ourselves, we will be able to build houses, live and work in space forever,” said Takao Doi, an astronaut affiliated with Kyoto University. This is the first step in a 50-year plan that includes planting trees and building actual timber houses on the moon and even Mars.
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