Start-up Advances Toward In-Orbit Manufacturing
Originally Published 12 days ago — by BBC
A Cardiff-based startup, Space Forge, has successfully sent a mini factory into orbit that can produce ultra-pure semiconductors in space, leveraging the vacuum and weightlessness to create higher quality materials than possible on Earth. The company plans to develop larger factories and test re-entry technology, opening new possibilities for manufacturing in space that could benefit electronics and other industries on Earth.