The world’s first wooden satellite should be in space by the end of 2021

Of all the things satellites can be made of, there’s a wooden one headed to space, hopefully soon. A Finnish company called Arctic Astronautics is working on sending the world’s first wooden satellite to space by the end of this year. The satellite, WISA Woodsat, is a nanosatellite that’s shaped like a cube and is amde of birch plywood. It has sensors that have been developed by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The WISA Woodsat is 10cm on each side, length, height, and width. The main idea behind something like this is to see if a material like wood can survive in the vacuum, heat, cold, and radiation in space.