Varda Space Industries launched its first in-orbit manufacturing spacecraft on board SpaceX's latest rideshare mission.
. The spacecraft itself was built by Rocket Lab and is designed to provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 264-poundAdvertisement
The California-based startup wants to manufacture products in space that can benefit from being created in the microgravity environment and delivered back to Earth at a fast rate. Varda’s vision is aided by the increased access to space over the past couple of years, making it easier to launch its capsules intoThe first capsule sent to space will attempt to produce pharmaceutical drugs while in the microgravity environment and return those products in the re-entry capsule. The spacecraft is set to spend about three months in orbit and send around 90-130 pounds of finished product on a trajectory towardVarda was founded in 2020 and aims to use space to create better products for Earth.
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