Meghan Everett, NASA’s deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station program, said, “While some of you might think that wood in space seems a little counterintuitive, researchers hope this investigation demonstrates that a wooden satellite can be more sustainable and less polluting for the environment than conventional satellites.”
LignoSat was created by researchers at Kyoto University along with a homebuilding company, according to Reuters.
“With timber, a material we can produce by ourselves, we will be able to build houses, live and work in space forever,” Takao Doi, an astronaut who now studies human space activities at Kyoto University, told Reuters.
Outer Wilds Ventures was actually ahead of the curve.
Leave it to the Japanese, who invented tsugite joinery, to show the world how to build a wooden satellite.
