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2026-02-10
UK Space Agency: Funding Advanced Material Manufacturing in Low Earth Orbit
Dillip Chowdary
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Factories in the Stars
The UK Space Agency has awarded contracts to three innovative firms to explore the manufacturing of advanced semiconductors and optical fibers in microgravity...
Why Space?
- Purity: Absence of convection and sedimentation allows for perfect crystalline structures.
- Semiconductor Gains: Higher electron mobility in space-grown GaN and InP wafers.
- Pharma: Faster protein crystal growth for drug discovery.