World's 1st wooden satellite deploys from ISS to demonstrate cleaner spacecraft tech (photo)

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LignoSat's six-month mission will demonstrate whether wood could help reduce the environmental impact of spaceflight in the future.

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It's not the world's first. The WISA Woodsat launched in 2022, and it was an off the shelf cubesat kit that had already had several dozen launched on rideshares, this was just the first time a major space program launched one.

Ranger 3 was partially made of wood and that was in 1962.