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World's First Wooden Satellite, Lignosat, Launched on Spacex Mission:

World's First Wooden Satellite, Lignosat, Launched on Spacex Mission:

From : notebookcheck.net on 2024-11-21

LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, has been launched into space on the 31st SpaceX International Space Station resupply mission on November 4, 2024. The satellite was created by researchers and students at Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry under the LignoStella (space timber) project. The goal was to investigate the use of more ecological woods to help reduce the generation of unhealthy metal particles in the atmosphere during reentry of end-of-life satellites. For amateur radio operators, the LignoSat has two dipole antennas that can receive and broadcast RF signals. Operators can send a FM message to the satellite with their call signs, then receive decoded CW messages containing the call signs and SSIDs. Additionally, messages such as QTH encoded ones will be decoded, then downloaded over a FM downlink to be displayed on the project website.

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