{"id":5755,"date":"2024-11-05T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-heads-to-space-in-mars-exploration-test\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:32","slug":"worlds-first-wooden-satellite-heads-to-space-in-mars-exploration-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-heads-to-space-in-mars-exploration-test\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first wooden satellite heads to space in Mars exploration test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first wooden satellite has been launched into space.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, designed by Japanese researchers, was launched on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Experts hope to test how timber can be used in the exploration of the moon and <strong>Mars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>LignoSat will be flown to the International Space Station (ISS) on a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> mission before it\u2019s released into Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Takao Doi, an astronaut who studies human space activities at Kyoto University, said using renewable materials would allow humans to \u201cbuild houses, live and work in space forever\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Aiming to plant trees and build houses from timber on the moon and Mars in 50 years, Mr Doi\u2019s team set about designing the <strong>NASA<\/strong>-certified satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Wood is a more durable material in space than it is on Earth as there\u2019s no water or oxygen that would rot or inflame it, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental impact of the satellite at the end of its life is also minimised, burning up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere with less pollution than metal equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetal satellites might be banned in the future,\u201d Mr Doi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>\u2018s SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LignoSat is made of honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native to <strong>Japan<\/strong>, and has been made using a traditional Japanese technique without screws or glue.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will stay in orbit for six months once it\u2019s deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Kenji Kariya, a manager at the Sumitomo Forestry Tsukuba Research Institute said: \u201cIt may seem outdated, but wood is actually cutting-edge technology as civilisation heads to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpansion to space could invigorate the timber industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first wooden satellite has been launched into space. The satellite, designed by Japanese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}