A Wooden Satellite May Enter Orbit in 2021 - Nerdist

In December of last year, Kyoto University and Japanese logging company, Sumitomo Forestry, said they aimed to have a wooden satellite in space by 2023!

Now, a pair of Finnish companies say they want to have a wooden satellite in orbit around Earth this year.

The two Finnish companies, Arctic Astronautics and Huld, have teamed up with the forest industry corporation UPM Plywood for the mission.

The wooden satellite Arctic Astronautics and Huld aim to send to space carries the moniker, WISA Woodsat.

“WISA Woodsat will go where no wood has gone before,” the Finnish companies said in a press release.

“The wooden satellite with a selfie stick will surely bring goodwill and raise smiles, but essentially this is a serious science and technology endeavor,” Jari Mäkinen, WISA Woodsat mission manager, said in the press release.

Although, to be fair, the WISA Woodsat hasn’t rooted itself at all in space yet