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Bookmark or Share- LignoSat - WikipediaLignoSat is made of wood from honoki, a magnolia tree native in Japan. Wood from the tree is customarily used for sword sheets. The choice of material was determined through a a 10-month experiment aboard the International Space Station. The satellite was assembled through a traditional Japanese crafts technique without screws or glue. [4]
- LignoSat: First wood-panelled satellite launched into spaceNamed LignoSat, after the Latin word for wood, its panels have been built from a type of magnolia tree, using a traditional technique without screws or glue.
- World's first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword ...The origins of LignoSat (named after the Latin word for wood, “lignum”) date back to 2017, and come from former NASA astronaut and engineer, Takao Doi.At the time, Doi wondered if future human ...
- LignoSat: World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan ... - CNNLignoSat is made of honoki, using a traditional Japanese crafts technique without screws or glue. Once deployed, LignoSat will stay in the orbit for six months, with the electronic components ...
- LignoSat Project – 有人宇宙学研究センターLignoSat Project – 有人宇宙学研究センター. 宇宙空間における複合的環境が木材へ及ぼす影響を調査するため，1Uサイズの超小型木造人工衛星 (LignoSat)の開発を行っています．. 木材の主成分は炭素・水素・酸素からなる天然系高分子であり，大気圏再突入時に有害な金属酸化物の粒子を発生させないため，宇宙・成層圏・海洋の汚染防止に繋がる次世代の宇宙開発資源であると期待されます．また，広い温度範囲において物性が非常に安定しているといった特徴や，電磁波を遮蔽しないといった物理的性質から，木材は，宇宙という極限環境下で運用される人工衛星のシステム構築に関する新たな可能性を切り拓く材料であると考えられます．.
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