{"id":175577,"date":"2023-11-07T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasa-getting-ready-to-launch-wooden-satellite"},"modified":"2023-11-07T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:24:57","slug":"nasa-getting-ready-to-launch-wooden-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasa-getting-ready-to-launch-wooden-satellite","title":{"rendered":"NASA Getting Ready to Launch Wooden Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-getting-ready-to-launch-wooden-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Kyoto University has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-wooden-satellite\" class=\"\">been hard at work<\/a> on a satellite made of wood \u2014 and they say it\u2019s now scheduled to launch into space next summer in a joint mission between Japan\u2019s JAXS space agency and NASA.<\/p>\n<p>While it may sound like an odd choice of materials, they say wood is a surprisingly suitable material for space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you use wood on Earth, you have the problems of burning, rotting, and deformation, but in space, you don\u2019t have those problems: there is no oxygen in space, so it doesn\u2019t burn, and no living creatures live in them, so they don\u2019t rot,\u201d Koji Murata, a Kyoto University researcher who\u2019s been working on the project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/07\/asia\/japan-wooden-satellite-scn-spc\/index.html\" class=\"\">told <em>CNN<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Kyoto University has been hard at work on a satellite made of wood \u2014 and they say it\u2019s now scheduled to launch into space next summer in a joint mission between Japan\u2019s JAXS space agency and NASA. While it may sound like an odd choice of materials, they say wood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175577","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}