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Josh Dinner

Japan has a wild idea to launch a satellite made of wood in 2024

an illustration of a satellite in orbit covered in leaves

A team of researchers want to put a wooden satellite into orbit.

It's not as outrageous as you might think. Results from a recent test aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which exposed different woods to the vacuum of space, have been confirmed by the project's research team at Kyoto University, in Japan. Sure enough, the findings indicated that wood is remarkably resilient even in the environment of outer space.

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