SNEAK PEEK
On Tuesday, while everyone here in America was either casting votes or impatiently waiting for the results of our Presidential election, Japanese researchers sent the world's first wooden satellite to space. Named LignoSat after the Latin word for wood, the satellite was developed by Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry, a homebuilding company. It was included in a SpaceX mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be released into Earth's orbit for six months.
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