SpaceX launched multiple spacecraft for a mission, including the first factory in space to produce pharmaceuticals.
The satellite includes the Photon spacecraft and Varda's re-entry capsule and was among 72 launched on aFalcon 9 rocket and deployed in orbit. Photon provides power, communication and propulsion for Varda's 2-pound capsule, where a pharmaceutical experiment will happen in orbit.
Once Varda's mission is done, Rocket Lab's spacecraft will place the capsule, with the pharmaceuticals on board, and put it on a trajectory to return to. The capsule must then survive re-entering Earth's atmosphere at speeds up to Mach 25 or about 19,000 mph and land in Utah using parachutes. There is increasing interest in developing low-Earth orbit as a manufacturing and test-bed economy.
Varda's goal is to use the microgravity environment and increasing access to space to develop drugs that don't have feasible formulations on Earth. The first flight will test the crystallization process of ritonavir, a medicine that can be used to treat HIV/AIDs when combined with other treatments.
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