Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I’m just confused about what products can be manufactured completely autonomously, in a 0G environment, and are profitable enough to make space-based manufacture economical.
Solar energy for computation perhaps, but cooling would be too expensive.
In an existing ecosystem of space mining and processing of all required elements, with no need to exit gravity wells, could be microchips. I don’t think we are closer to that than Vinland settlers were to thirteen colonies.
Anything, because it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than launching finished products from Earth.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 days ago
Unobtanium…
Making things that can only be made in 0G, then bringing them back to Earth to sell.
I suspect the manned ISS isn’t too keen to add a continuously operating 1000C furnace component to their collection of modules.