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The World’s First Wooden Satellite Could Be the Key to Solving the Space Debris Problem

A satellite made almost entirely out of wood, a first, reached space this week.

Different woods received testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022, and thanks to that work, the final frontier is now home to LignoSat. This small satellite is made from magnolia wood. Space exposure tests onboard the ISS looked at other materials too, like cherry and birch wood. Magnolia wood won out for its “strength and workability,” reported The Japan Times.

One major advantage of a wooden satellite is that it is environmentally friendly. When satellites finish their missions, whether as planned or when they malfunction, they linger around in Earth’s orbit as space debris. Conventional satellites are made of metal. They produce aluminum oxide particles when a satellite or its pieces re-enter the atmosphere, but wood would burn up and produce less pollution, Takao Doi, former Japanese astronaut and one of the minds behind LignoSat at Kyoto University in Japan, told Reuters.

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