Varda Space Industries
companyVarda Space Industries processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth, focusing on pharmaceuticals.
Varda Space Industries, founded in January 2021 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, is a microgravity-enabled life sciences company. It designs and operates spacecraft for in-orbit pharmaceutical processing and aims to make reentry as common as launch. The company has received funding from NASA to develop technologies for long-term exploration on the Moon and in space.
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