World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers

The satellite‘s creators expect the wooden material will burn up completely when the device re-enters the atmosphere. - PHOTO: AFP

TOKYO (AFP): The world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft will be blasted off on a SpaceX rocket in September.

Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures just 10 centimetres (four inches).