LignoSat
Sign in to saveLignoSat is a small Japanese wooden satellite. It is credited as the world's first satellite to be made of wood.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Material used
- silicon
- Developer
- Sumitomo Forestry
- Mass
- 900
- Image
- A trio of CubeSats is ejected into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer (iss072e352045) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 10
- Width
- 10
- Length
- 10
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- volume as quantity
- 1
- name in kana
- リグノサット
- time of object orbit decay
- 2025-03-11
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2024-11-05
- space launch vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- powered by
- solar cell panel
- launch contractor
- SpaceX
- Commons category
- LignoSat
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LignoSat is a small Japanese wooden satellite. It is credited as the world's first satellite to be made of wood.
==Background== LignoSat was developed by Kyoto University and logging firm Sumitomo Forestry as a demonstration of using wood for space exploration uses.
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