Varda Space Industries

Space factories for Earth-bound products. Varda Space Industries is building the world's first commercial zero-gravity industrial park at scale. In the near-term, Varda is laser-focused on manufacturing things off Earth that are highly valued on Earth. Over the long-term, Varda can build the infrastructure needed to enable humanity to industrialize space.

Created: 2020-12-29

Updated: 2024-07-30

Founded
Country
2020
USA
Funding
$141M
Website
http://varda.com/
Social
Varda Space Industries

Product/Service

Classification
In-Space Manufacturing
Category
In-Space Manufacturing
In-Space Production
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
Transport Service (Re-Entry)
Fields
Space Capsule
Reusable
Status
Demonstrated, Development
First launch
2023

How? First, make profitable unmanned in-space factories manufacturing product #1 (more to come soon). Next, manufacture other important things in-space that benefit from low G. Then, build the first platform infrastructure that can easily harvest the source materials for those and other products in-space via asteroids and the like.

Varda has a radically big vision. We can break the limits of scarcity imposed by Earth. We can stop relying on destructive extraction of Earth's finite resources for all manufacturing. We can build the space infrastructure necessary to propel humanity into becoming a multi-planet species.

Rocket Lab announced it has signed a deal with in-space manufacturing company Varda Space Industries to produce three Photon spacecraft that will integrate with their space factories, enabling high-value products to be manufactured in zero-gravity and returned to Earth in Varda’s re-entry capsule.

Varda will procure a fourth Photon spacecraft. The deal follows on a previous bulk-order by Varda in August 2021 for three Photon spacecraft from Rocket Lab.

In March 2023, Ashlee Vance wrote in a Bloomberg article:

NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that will support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space under its sixth Tipping Point opportunity in July 2023.

W-1 (Winnebago-1) Mission

Varda Space announced it signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX for that smallsat, which will be part of a Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for the first quarter of 2023.

Passed a major test in preparation for our launch on Transporter 8. This drop test mimicked the sequence our vehicle will execute after reaching terminal velocity post re-entry. This was done with a flight-like vehicle, not a drop-test dummy.

Rocket Lab will deliver the first Photon spacecraft for Varda in the first quarter of 2023, with the second spacecraft expected in late 2023 and the third in 2024.

Varda waiting on FAA license to return space manufacturing capsule (SpaceNews, 2023-07-25)

Varda Space, Rocket Lab nail first-of-its-kind spacecraft landing in Utah, TechCrunch, 2024-02-22.

Varda Releases Results of In-Space Pharma Mission, Payload, 2024-03-21.

Biopharma

Our core mission, and biggest challenge, is to expand the economic bounds of human kind by creating a microgravity-enabled life sciences sector. 

Processing in a microgravity environment dramatically alters buoyancy, natural convection, sedimentation, and phase separation—driving significant differences in transport-driven phenomena.

Varda conducts process characterization on custom and traditional crystallization hardware for small-volume screening (Crystal16, Technobis) as well as larger-scale automated reactors (EasyMax, Mettler Toledo) with complimentary process analytical technologies. Varda offers:

Varda has developed hypergravity screening methodologies that can, in a cost-effective way, measure the role of gravity in affecting drug product performance. Varda’s platform allows us to rapidly screen a broad set of potential drug candidates for space, inclusive of both small molecule and biologic modalities. Initial screening allows Varda to fly therapies that point toward the most promising microgravity candidates.

Varda’s hypergravity crystallization platform demonstrated the effect of gravity on nucleation and growth kinetics for a seeded cooling crystallization of L-histidine. The studies illustrate the ability to use gravity as a variable to influence particle size distributions of small molecule therapeutics.

Hypersonic flight test bed 

Varda’s hypersonic flight test bed is the off-the-shelf method to reproduce the most challenging hypersonic and reentry flight environments without building a costly dedicated representative test vehicle. You gain flight heritage through Mach 25 and advance your TRL.

Status Comment / Notes

The first space capsule launched in June 2023, manufactured crystals of a drug called ritonavir, and returned in February 2024 after regulatory delays.

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Reenter Space (Reentry Systems)

Dormant, Early stage

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

ReOrbital

Development

ARGO

Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Earth-LEO)

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA)

Concept, Development

Rocket Pi

Commercial Space Station, In-Space Manufacturing, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Microgravity Research Payloads

Rocket Pi (Rocket π, Beijing) Aerospace Science and Technology, Huojian Pi)

Development, Launched

Dream Chaser, Shooting Star

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Sierra Space (Sierra Nevada Corp, SNC)

Development

Ghost

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Sierra Space (Sierra Nevada Corp, SNC)

Development

REV1

ISS Utilization Service, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Space Cargo Unlimited

Development

ForgeStar, Aether

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), In-Space Manufacturing

Space Forge

Development

Space Rider

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Space Rider (ESA)

Development

TangoLab, CubeLabs

ISS Utilization Service, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Space Tango

Active

ST-42

ISS Utilization Service, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Space Tango

Early stage, ?

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

SpaceLocker

Development

Black Bay

Space Tug, Transport Service (LEO-GEO), Orbital Transportation, Propellant Refilling, Propellant Refuel Station, Reusable Satellite

SpaceRyde

Dormant, Bankrupt

DragonLab

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

SpaceX

Dormant

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Robotic Space Station, Microgravity Research Payloads, In-Space Manufacturing

Starflight Dynamics

Development

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Stoke Space

Development

Nyx

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (LEO-Moon), In-Space Manufacturing, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Commercial Lander, Commercial Lunar Lander

The Exploration Company

Development

VSI-LAB

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Vanguard Space Industries

Early stage, Dormant

SpaceCase

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

Way4Space (ArianeGroup)

Development

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Workspaces

A-SpaX (Affordable Space Access)

Cancelled, Development

Commercial Sample Return, Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Agile Space Industries

Concept, Dormant

Asteroid Mining Spacecraft

Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining, Transport Service (Re-Entry)

AMi Exploration (ARCA Space, Asteroid Mining Program)

Development

Inflatable Atmospheric Decelerator (IAD), Space Return Service, Phoenix

Transport Service (Re-Entry), In-Space Manufacturing, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

ATMOS Space Cargo

Development

B300

Transport Service (Re-Entry)

AZSpace

Demonstrated

SpaceDrone

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Space Tug, Reusable Satellite, Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

BlackStar Orbital Technologies

Early stage

Mk-II Aurora, Mk-III

Microgravity Flight Service (Suborbital), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Suborbital Testbed

Dawn Aerospace

Development

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Downmass

Development, ?

Back From Space (BFS)

Transport Service (Re-Entry)

e.Nova Aerospace

Concept

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Reusable Satellite

EARS Project (European Advanced Reusable Satellite)

Concept, Development

ELS-R, ELS-RS

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

ElevationSpace

Development

Foton Spacecraft

Foton

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Foton (Photon)

Retired

GTL

Hyperion

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Transport Service (LEO-Moon), Commercial Lander, Commercial Lunar Lander, Space Tug, Orbital Transportation

GTL (Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories)

Early stage

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

HStar Space Transport

Early stage

Retriever, Resource Exchange Module (REX)

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Persistent Platform, Robotic Space Station

In Orbit Aerospace

Development

MERCAP

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Independence-X

Early stage

Interspace Explore

ZengZhang

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Earth-LEO)

Interspace Explore (i-Space, Interstellar Glory, Beijing Interstellar Development Technology)

Development

URV (Universal Re-entry Vechicle)

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

Intuitive Machines

Cancelled

Ray, Arc

Transport Service (Re-Entry), In-Space Manufacturing, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Inversion Space

Development

HSRC (HTV Small Re-entry Capsule), HTV, HTV-X

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Lunar Lander

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

Demonstrated

LEAP

In-Space Manufacturing, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

LEAP

Development

VBK-Raduga

Transport Service (Re-Entry)

MKB Raduga (Raduga Design Bureau)

Dormant, Discontinued

Glide2

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Hardware

NewSpace Systems

Development

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Orbital Bridge

Early stage

Ferry, Cargo Ferry

In-Space Manufacturing, Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Outpost Space

Development, Launched

Space Truck

Space Tug, On-Orbit Servicing, In-Space Manufacturing, In-Space Assembly, Transport Service (Re-Entry), Orbital Transportation

Plasmos

Cancelled, Development

Olympus, Pythom Spaceship

Commercial Lander, Commercial Lunar Lander, Transport Service (Re-Entry), Commercial Space Station

Pythom

Early stage

Radian One

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Human Spaceflight, Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Radian Space

Development

LASER (Lunar Ascent Sample Earth Return)

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Commercial Sample Return

RadioBro

Idea, Dormant

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

Raven Dynamics

Early stage

In-Space Manufacturing, Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

Raven Space Systems

Development

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), In-Space Manufacturing

Reenter Space (Reentry Systems)

Dormant, Early stage

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

ReOrbital

Development

ARGO

Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Earth-LEO)

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA)

Concept, Development

ARGO

Transport Service (Re-Entry)

RTSS (Reusable Vehicles Space Systems, MKTC)

Dormant, Early stage

Oryx, Mini Space Brake (MSB)

Transport Service (Re-Entry), In-Space Manufacturing, Resources - Water, Resources - Asteroid Mining, Space Mining, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)

Shackleton Energy

Dormant

Meteoroid Complementary Descent Module, ASTREO

Space Tug, Transport Service (Re-Entry), In-Space Logistics

Sidereus Space Dynamics

Concept

Dream Chaser, Shooting Star

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Sierra Space (Sierra Nevada Corp, SNC)

Development

Ghost

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Sierra Space (Sierra Nevada Corp, SNC)

Development

RED-25, RED-DATA2

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

SpaceWorks Flight (Terminal Velocity)

Launched, Demonstrated, Development

Starship, Starship HLS, Starship Human Landing System

Human Landing System, Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Transport Service (LEO-Moon), Point-to-point

SpaceX

Development, Launched

Dragon, Dragon 2, Cargo Dragon

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

SpaceX

Active

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Stoke Space

Development

Transport Service (Earth-LEO), Space Tourism Activities, Transport Service (Re-Entry)

t/Space (Transformational Space Corporation)

Dormant

Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Thales Alenia Space

Development

The Fairchild Space Company

Commercial Space Station, Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry)

The Fairchild Space Company

Dormant, Cancelled

VSI-LAB

Microgravity Flight Service (LEO), Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)

Vanguard Space Industries

Early stage, Dormant

SpaceCase

Transport Service (Re-Entry), Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite), Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)

Way4Space (ArianeGroup)

Development