Varda Space Industries
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Varda Space Industries is a privately held American space research company headquartered in El Segundo, California. Founded in January 2021, the company designs, builds, and flies spacecraft that process pharmaceuticals in microgravity. The company targets small molecule crystallization, which is difficult to produce in Earth's gravity, and brings those crystals back to Earth with their atmospheric reentry vehicle. Investors in the company include venture capitalists such as Khosla Ventures and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
2020 Website,
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Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, W-Series,
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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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W-Series ⓘ
model of materials manufacturing spacecraft by Varda Space Industries
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| class | space object | W-Series | technology demonstration spacecraft, | Wikidata | |