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

Space has a major sustainability problem. When satellites made mostly of aluminum die fall back down to earth, they combust ...

Developed by researchers at Kyoto University, the satellite weighs just 900g and was recently launched aboard a SpaceX ...

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

As part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station, the world's first wooden satellite is expected to burn up ...

A SpaceX rocket carried the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, into space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has been sent to space to prove that wood is a space-grade material, and, most importantly, biodegradable.

Data will be sent from the satellite to Japanese researchers to determine if it can withstand extreme changes in temperature.

After the small cube satellite reaches the International Space Station (ISS), it will be ejected into a 410-km low Earth ...

The first wooden satellite "LignoSat" was successfully launched to the ISS to test the possible uses of wood in space travel.

At 9:52 a.m. EST, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked to the forward port of the International Space Station's ...