Developed by Kyoto University researchers and the Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry, LignoStat -- the satellite ...

Japan’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, has arrived at the ISS aboard a SpaceX capsule, marking a unique step toward sustainable space technology.

The plan is to put it into orbit in early December, according to Koji Murata, a professor of forest and biomaterials science at Kyoto University in Japan who worked on the satellite. If successful ...

The world's first wooden satellite, created by Japanese researchers, has been launched to test timber for space applications.

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