{"id":117580,"date":"2020-12-23T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-by-japan-in-2023"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:23:55","slug":"worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-by-japan-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-by-japan-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first wooden satellite to be launched by Japan in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-be-launched-by-japan-in-20232.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who knew wood could still be useful in space. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are planting the seeds for a 2023 launch of the world\u2019s first satellite made out of wood.<\/p>\n<p>The partners announced their intentions on Wednesday, saying the aim was basic research and proof of concept.<\/p>\n<p>They have agreed to conduct research on tree growth and the use of wood materials in space. They hope to promote technology for using wood in extreme environments on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew wood could still be useful in space. \ud83d\ude03 TOKYO \u2014 Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are planting the seeds for a 2023 launch of the world\u2019s first satellite made out of wood. The partners announced their intentions on Wednesday, saying the aim was basic research and proof of concept. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}