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Makinen plans to launch Woodsat into
this year to achieve his dream. He started a company to produce wooden
of orbit-ready
satellites. He explained: "I've always enjoyed making
planes that involve a lot of wooden
. Having worked in the space education
, this got me wondering
we don't fly any wooden materials into space." He thought of the
for Woodsat in 2017 and "the project just snowballed". He said: "We found
backing, and secured a [place] on...a
from Rocket Lab in New Zealand."