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The idea of Manufacturing in Space goes back decades
However, we did not seem to have a topic for it.
This opening post is about a funded initiative to test manufacturing of valuable items in microgravity ...
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/spac … 27955.html
Aria Alamalhodaei
Wed, August 11, 2021, 1:51 PM
Orbital manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries is moving fast. Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions.The first spacecraft will be delivered in the first quarter of 2023, with the second to follow later that year and the third in 2024. It’s an aggressive schedule for the eight-month-old Varda and would mark the company’s first three manufacturing missions to space. The contract includes an option for Varda to purchase a fourth Photon.
Partnering with a more established company makes sense -- especially considering the Photon’s bona fides, which includes a NASA-funded mission to the moon at the end of the year. Rocket Lab was also awarded a subcontract by the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory to design two Photon spacecraft for a one-year mission to Mars.
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The ISS has been doing microgravity experiments for 3 decades now. There is a few things that I would consider manufacturing but even with those they are very much not the way we would be doing so for the future as we are still bring the raw or processed materials up to the locations which might do the manufacturing.
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For SpaceNut re #2 .... Thanks for giving this new topic a boost!
To try to start putting the subject into perspective, for readers of the forum who might not be familiar with the history, Dr. Gerard O'Neill launched a series of Space Manufacturing conferences in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
https://space.nss.org/space-manufacturi … abstracts/
Space Manufacturing 13: Settling Circumsolar Space (2001)
Space Manufacturing 12: Challenges and Opportunities in Space (1999)
Space Manufacturing 11: The Challenge of Space, Past and Future (1997)
Space Manufacturing 10: Pathways to the High Frontier (1995)
Space Manufacturing 9: The High Frontier: Accession, Development and Utilization (1993)
Space Manufacturing 8: Energy and Materials from Space (1991)
Space Manufacturing 7: Space Resources to Improve Life on Earth (1989)
Space Manufacturing 6: Nonterrestrial Resources, Biosciences, and Space Engineering (1987)
Space Manufacturing 5: Engineering with Lunar and Asteroidal Materials (1985)
Space Manufacturing 1983 (1983)
Space Manufacturing 4 (1981)
Space Manufacturing Facilities 3 (1979)
Space Manufacturing Facilities 2: Space Colonies (1977)
Space Manufacturing Facilities: Space Colonies (1975)
Abstracts and other information about these conferences can be found thanks to Google ...
Much of the archive is maintained by the Space Studies Institute //ssi.org
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I guess this could go here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … r-BB1j8589 Quote:
Watch the plasma fly in space capsule's dramatic fall to Earth
Story by Andrew Paul • 21h
If you have patience you can watch the Varda video, which did not go quite as I expected. My expectations will be revised.
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Flying everything to a site that has no natural resources. and only minimal recycling is not all that practical.
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Manufacturing things in microgravity will probably be important even if the human race never leaves LEO.
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Here is the first part ot manufacturing in space as its already there. It's a matter of converting what we have to start with.
5,800 Pounds of Space Trash Will Fall Back to Earth Today
What some call trash is another's treasure.
the debris comes from a 2.9-ton pallet of used batteries that the International Space Station ejected back in 2021. At the time, NASA said the batteries would orbit the Earth for two to four years before harmlessly burning up in the atmosphere. But at the same time, the batteries were reportedly the biggest objects the space station had ever jettisoned.
Well, a little late to collect it but maybe the future we can save it for the future instead of tossing it.
The usual method is to through it in a capsule that is not taking man or cargo back to earth.
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