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The first wooden satellite launched into space
Can wood survive space?
Called LignoSat, after the Latin word for wood, the satellite launched Monday night aboard a SpaceX mission bound for the International Space Station. “With timber, a material we can produce by ourselves, we will be able to build houses, live and work in space forever,” Takao Doi, an astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, told Reuters. Kyoto University researchers and timber company Sumitomo Forestry started working together on the space wood project in 2020.
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