Space Forge is a British aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, focused on developing reusable in-orbit fabrication capabilities. It aims to leverage the unique conditions of space, like microgravity and vacuum, to manufacture advanced materials such as semiconductors and alloys that are impossible or difficult to produce on Earth. Their primary product is the ForgeStar, a returnable satellite platform designed for in-space manufacturing, with partnerships including Northrop Grumman and Voyager Space to advance these capabilities. Associated keywords: in-space manufacturing, microgravity, returnable satellites, ForgeStar, advanced materials.
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Space Forge is headquartered in Cardiff and develops materials and semiconductors in microgravity.
Space Forge will receive £10 million through an increase in the UK Space Agency contribution to the European Space Agency's General Support Technology Programme.
Space Forge's ForgeStar-1 mission demonstrated that the company can create a production environment in space for next-generation semiconductor materials.
Space Forge will receive £10 million through an increased UK Space Agency contribution to the European Space Agency’s General Support Technology Programme.
The £10 million Space Forge funding will support development of Pridwen, a deployable heat shield for returning spacecraft and materials produced in orbit to Earth.
Space Forge is a Cardiff-based company that produces materials and semiconductors in microgravity.
Space Forge recently completed ForgeStar-1, a mission that demonstrated in-space production of next-generation semiconductor materials.
Joshua Western is the CEO and co-founder of Space Forge.
Space Forge’s Pridwen is designed to make it simpler and cheaper to return materials manufactured in space.
Space Forge will receive £10 million to develop its reusable fold-out heat shield, Pridwen.
Space Forge is developing semiconductors in microgravity for in-space manufacturing.
Space Forge’s Pridwen mission will design, build, launch, and return a deployable heat shield system to protect spacecraft returning to Earth.
The ForgeStar-1 mission involved Space Forge’s Plasma Strike experiment in low Earth orbit.
Space Forge demonstrated operation of a key spacecraft subsystem aboard the ForgeStar-1 mission.
The TISICS-manufactured tank supplied the pressurized gas required to operate Space Forge’s Plasma Strike experiment.
Space Forge’s ForgeStar-1 mission is advancing orbital manufacturing and in-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing markets.
Space Forge and TISICS are UK companies involved in the ForgeStar-1 mission.
Space Forge plans to exploit the stability and purity of the space environment to grow higher-quality semiconductor seed crystals than are typically possible on Earth.
Space Forge Ltd secured £300,000 for its 2Forge2Furious study to demonstrate commercial production of semiconductor seed crystals in orbit.
Space Forge demonstrated key aspects of its technology with the ForgeStar-1 mission, which generated plasma on a commercial free-flying platform for the first time.