LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

"Among the experiment modules on the ISS, only Kibo has its own storage compartment," says JAXA. Linked round-the-clock with teams at the Tsukuba Space Center, the module's assembly took three ...

where the Kibo was stationed. On Aug. 29, three students representing different high schools and workers with the Saga Prefectural Space and Science Museum visited JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center in ...

But the LignoSat passed stringent safety inspections of NASA and JAXA. The satellite will be sent ... space from the Japanese experimental module Kibo of the ISS. Traditional artificial satellites ...

It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kibo module together with four other experimental mini-satellites in December, NASA officials said in the Jan. 7 statement.