The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, has been launched into space as part of an early test of the use of wood in exploration of the Moon and Mars. Reuters reports this.
The LignoSat satellite, developed by Kyoto University and housing and construction company Sumitomo Forestry, will be transported to the International Space Station as part of the SpaceX mission and then launched into orbit approximately 400 km above the Earth.
“We will be able to build houses with wood, a material that we can produce ourselves, and we will be able to live and work in space forever,” said space shuttle astronaut Takao Doi, who studies human activities in space at Kyoto University.
Other space news: In September, Russian cosmonauts broke the record for longest stay on the ISS.
Source: People Talk
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