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Wooden Satellite Reaches Space for the First Time


Japan's LignoSat will test the durability of wood in low Earth orbit.

LignoSat, a wooden satellite developed by researchers at Kyoto University and Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry, launched to the ISS on Monday night on board SpaceX’s resupply mission. In March 2022, the researchers behind LignoSat exposed three types of wood to the harsh environment outside the ISS for a period of 10 months, and found that the material was not affected by the surrounding cosmic rays or incoming solar particles. Once it’s deployed, LignoSat will be put to the test for a period of six months in low Earth orbit, with onboard instruments measuring how the magnolia wood fares in the harsh space environment.

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