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  1. A researcher at a Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 university has created technology which will pave the way for #orbital 🌌 factories which can #3Dprint components on demand in #ZeroGravity scotsman.com/news/the-scottish

    Embedded #3Dprinting can "solve the challenge of #gravity-induced deformation" of printed structures nature.com/articles/s41467-025

    #InSpaceManufacturing #SpaceIndustry

  2. #MiningTechnology 📆 September 13, 2023 The #economic potential of extracting raw #minerals from #space for use on Earth or for #InSpaceManufacturing is infinite. The #asteroid ☄️ database Asterank has estimated the resource values for asteroids tracked by #NASA. It claims that the ten closest and most cost-effective #asteroids to mine from #Earth contain around $1.5trn 💰 of natural #resources in today’s economy, which is equivalent to the current annual value of the entire global 🌍 #mining ⚒️ industry.
    The current level of investment 💵 into #SpaceExploration and the potential exhaustion of Earth’s resources mean that #AsteroidMining is more of an inevitability than a possibility. mining-technology.com/comment/

    #AsteroidMining

  3. #CNN 📆 June 12, 2023 #Scientists found that using #crystals formed in #space 🌌 could create a more stable #cancer drug ⚕️, one that could be administered by a shot 💉 rather than the time-consuming intravenous injection currently used.
    #Varda’s first mission will focus on research around ritonavir, a drug traditionally used to treat #HIV but more recently included in the antiviral medication Paxlovid to fight #Covid19 edition.cnn.com/2023/06/12/bus

    Varda #SpaceIndustries factoriesinspace.com/varda-spa

    @arstechnica 📆 Jul 8, 2023 #InSpaceManufacturing startup aces #pharma 💊 experiment in #orbit arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/

    #SpaceFactory #SpaceIndustry

    Picture : Protein Crystal Growth experiment at the #ISS commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil