This small wooden cube is actually a satellite that's being sent to space

When aluminum spacecraft burn up in the atmosphere, they leave behind tiny particles that can damage the Earth's ozone layer.

When you use wood on Earth, you have the problems of burning, rotting, and deformation, but in space, you don't have those problems, Koji Murata, a researcher at Kyoto University leading the initiative, told CNN.

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