The world's first wooden satellite was launched into space
The world's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, was successfully sent beyond Earth - into outer space.
The event took place as part of the mission of the American company Space X, as reported by Reuters.
As reported by TASS, which has become familiar with the publication, the LignoSat satellite, designed at Kyoto University, will be delivered to the ISS.
Afterwards, it will be released into orbit at an altitude of about 400 kilometers above the Earth.
The stated purpose of the mission is to "demonstrate the space potential of renewable materials."
With wood, a material we can produce ourselves, we will be able to build houses and live and work in space forever, said astronaut and Kyoto University researcher Takao Doi.
And he added: together with his team, he also planned to start planting trees and building wooden houses on the Moon and Mars in the next 50 years.
Professor Koji Murata of the aforementioned university believes that wood in space will be more durable than on Earth, since there will be no negative impact of water and oxygen.
He recalled that at the beginning of the last century, airplanes were made of wood, so a wooden satellite is quite possible.
