and 7,900 aluminum CGS have been collected Some 4,700,000 grams of nitrus oxide have been de-gassed In addition, the EPA has ...

Japanese scientists are heralding a "cutting-edge technology" that could fuel humans' expansion into space: wood. As we look ...

Japanese scientists just launched the first wooden satellite, called LignoSat, to the International Space Station where it'll ...

A Japanese team launched LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, to the International Space Station (ISS). This 10-cm³ ...

The satellite is made from magnolia wood, which was historically used for samurai sheaths. The world’s first wooden satellite ...

A Japanese company just built a wooden satellite and sent it to space in order to test the material’s durability. This could ...

It sets an important precedent, with its creators hoping to demonstrate the use of an entirely renewable material in space ...

Japanese researchers deployed the world’s first wooden satellite into orbit today (November 5). LignoSat was developed by ...

An international team of scientists have combined cyclic-olefin copolymers with a powder of aluminum oxide to create a ...

Conventional metal satellites create aluminum oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with ...

The world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, developed by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, launched into space on ...