Data communications and scientific experimentation are the prime use cases in space these days, but the vastness of it seems to coax out an urge among founders to dream bigger and aim higher. Among the planet-explorers, weapons builders and element miners, Space Forge is also a product of that motion. The startup’s focus is the manufacturing of materials, specifically crystals to make state-of-the-art semiconductors back on earth, and it believes it’s come up with a way to create these in the zero-gravity, absolute-zero environment high above the earth. It recently launched its first microwave-sized machine to start the effort. Watch this space (literally). IL
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