UK-based Space Forge wants to create ultra-high-quality crystals in space for the manufacture of semiconductors back on Earth.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is expanding the scientific footprint of 2027’s all-Boilermaker suborbital flight mission with the addition of onboard autonomous experiments in quantum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having revolutionized the space launch system and space-based telecommunications, SpaceX has fixed on a new industry to conquer.

Space Forge has turned a long‑running thought experiment into hardware, generating plasma in low Earth orbit to begin manufacturing semiconductor materials in space. By firing up a compact furnace on ...

Varda Space Industries, which is leveraging reusable rockets to manufacture drugs in low Earth orbit, has received more fuel for its endeavors in the form of a $187 million series C fundraising haul.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is accelerating a quiet revolution on the factory floor: using artificial intelligence to ...

Life-saving medicines, optical fibers and semiconductors could be made in space to benefit people and businesses across the ...

Focused on developing the first power grid in space, the company is locating its new facilities in the city of Albuquerque and plans to create 200 jobs. The space economy is growing with Mantis Space ...

Phil Scully is the co-founder and general partner of Balerion Space Ventures, where he oversees investments in the space, defense, and advanced technology sectors. An experienced venture capitalist, ...

Jonathan O’Callaghan, who reports on astronomy and space exploration, covered the recent push to develop in-space manufacturing. He says the unique physics of microgravity could lead to major ...