The world’s first wooden satellite is set to go to space this year thanks to the efforts of Finnish company UPM Plywood, Arctic Astronautics and Huld.
The wooden nanosatellite, named WISA Woodsat, is expected to “go where no wood has gone before” by the end of 2021, as per a release on May 12.
It was created to gather data on the “behavior and durability of plywood over an extended period in the harsh temperatures, vacuum and radiation of space in order to assess the use of wood materials in space structures.”
Artic Astronautics, which designed WISA Woodsat, based its structure after its Kitsat educational satellite, according to the release.
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