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A microwave-sized factory is running in space and hits 1,000°C

A microwave-sized factory is quietly running hundreds of kilometres above Earth, heating a tiny furnace to 1,000°C and turning weightlessness into an industrial asset. Instead of treating orbit as a ...
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Microwave-sized space factory makes plasma to create 4,000x purer chips

Another report on the same microwave‑sized space factory notes that it has already generated plasma and could create “4,000x” purer chips, framing the event as the moment when what once seemed like ...

Axiom Space CEO on NASA's vision for space stations and building a Houston spacecraft factory

Space stations and spacesuits are high up on the in-tray of this Houston CEO. He sat down with the Houston Business Journal ...
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Britain’s first ‘space factory’ blasts into orbit on test mission

A British-built manufacturing satellite successfully launched into orbit on its first test mission. Cardiff-based startup Space Forge launched the probe — called ForgeStar-1 — aboard SpaceX’s ...
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Texas’ space investment grows in Austin; company builds next gen satellite factory

Bee Cave, TX (KXAN) — A new spacecraft factory is coming to Travis County after the company behind it, CesiumAstro, received a $10 million grant from the Texas Space Commission earlier this year. The ...
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Thales Alenia Space opens Space Smart Factory in Rome

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 per cent) and Leonardo (33 per cent), has today unveiled its Space Smart Factory in Rome with a ceremony attended by Italian President Sergio ...