Japan has just launched the first-ever wooden satellite to space. The LignoSat cubesat was sent skyward by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday and ...

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(Courtesy: NASA) Researchers in Japan have launched the world’s first wooden satellite to test the feasibility of using timber in space. Dubbed LignoSat2, the small “cubesat” was developed by Kyoto ...

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Competition can only truly flourish with the provision of a genuinely level playing field, writes Enno Wiebe, director general of the European Rail Supply Industry Association (Unife).