The first satellite in space made mostly of wood arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday along with other ...

Unique among the myriad of items the mission carried is the first satellite made from wood, a palm-sized cube called the ...

In the true spirit of BEAMS, the newly unveiled InstaPump Fury 94 boasts refined, yet forward-thinking updates to the model.

Space exploration often invokes the idea of durable, cutting-edge materials that can withstand extreme environmental challenges. But scientists in Japan suspect we don’t need to abandon one of the ...

LignoSat was fabricated without screws or glue and will hopefully shield its internal components from space radiation ...

The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable ...

The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

The world’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, was launched into space on November 5. Developed by a team of researchers from ...

With a 50-year plan of planting trees and building timber houses on the moon and Mars, Doi's team decided to develop a ...

After four years in development, a wood satellite developed by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese logging and ...

Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat. Irene ...