https://twiar.net North America's Premiere Amateur Radio News Magazine Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:35:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://twiar.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-twiarlogo512px-32x32.jpg https://twiar.net 32 32 https://twiar.net/2024/11/09/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-lignosat-launched-on-spacex-international-space-station-resupply-mission/ https://twiar.net/2024/11/09/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-lignosat-launched-on-spacex-international-space-station-resupply-mission/#comments Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:05:00 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=25474 The world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, has been launched on the 31st SpaceX ISS resupply rocket. Wood can reduce the amount of metal particles left in the atmosphere during satellite reentry. The CubeSat was created by a team of researchers and students at Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry.]]> https://twiar.net/2024/11/09/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-lignosat-launched-on-spacex-international-space-station-resupply-mission/feed/ 1 https://twiar.net/2024/09/02/via-hackaday-ultra-black-material-sustainably-made-from-wood/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:04:57 +0000 https://twiar.net/?p=23145 Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material made...]]>