Space factories for Earth-bound products. In the near-term, Varda is laser-focused on manufacturing things off Earth that are highly valued on Earth. Over the long-term, Varda can build the infrastructure needed to enable humanity to industrialize space.
Varda Space Industries is building the world's first commercial zero-gravity industrial park at scale.
Created: 2020-12-29
Updated: 2022-09-18
Company - Varda Space Industries
Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
In-Space Production
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
Transport Service (Re-Entry)
- Fields
- Space Capsule
- Status
- 3) Development
- First launch
- 2023
How? First, make profitable unmanned in-space factories manufacturing product #1 (more to come soon). Next, manufacture other important things in-space that benefit from low G. Then, build the first platform infrastructure that can easily harvest the source materials for those and other products in-space via asteroids and the like.
Varda has a radically big vision. We can break the limits of scarcity imposed by Earth. We can stop relying on destructive extraction of Earth's finite resources for all manufacturing. We can build the space infrastructure necessary to propel humanity into becoming a multi-planet species.
Rocket Lab announced it has signed a deal with in-space manufacturing company Varda Space Industries to produce three Photon spacecraft that will integrate with their space factories, enabling high-value products to be manufactured in zero-gravity and returned to Earth in Varda’s re-entry capsule.
Varda Space announced Oct. 11 it signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX for that smallsat, which will be part of a Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for the first quarter of 2023. The companies did not disclose the terms of the contract. The spacecraft will spend up to three months in orbit to test space manufacturing technologies. At the end of that mission, a reentry capsule will return to Earth the material produced in orbit. Company executives said they chose SpaceX because it offered the least expensive and most reliable solution for getting their spacecraft into orbit. “Launch costs is a core driver of our economics,” said Delian Asparouhov, co-founder and president of Varda Space, in an interview. “We want to stick to the lowest cost available solution.”
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