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A researcher at a Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 university has created technology which will pave the way for #orbital 🌌 factories which can #3Dprint components on demand in #ZeroGravity https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-scottish-academic-who-travels-on-vomit-comet-shuttle-to-create-a-3d-printing-factory-in-space-4941419

Embedded #3Dprinting can "solve the challenge of #gravity-induced deformation" of printed structures https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-55972-1

Eighty-two percent of senior executives in Deloitte’s 📆 2023 #space survey said that innovation in the #SpaceMarket is a priority for their organization. #SmallSats 🛰️ accounted for about 95% 📊 of #spacecraft launched in 2022. As of 2022, the global #SpaceSector had attracted private equity investments of about US$272 billion 💰 into 1,791 unique companies since 2013 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/aerospace-defense/future-of-space-economy.html

#MiningTechnology 📆 September 13, 2023 The #economic potential of extracting raw #minerals from #space for use on Earth or for #InSpaceManufacturing is infinite. The #asteroid ☄️ database Asterank has estimated the resource values for asteroids tracked by #NASA. It claims that the ten closest and most cost-effective #asteroids to mine from #Earth contain around $1.5trn 💰 of natural #resources in today’s economy, which is equivalent to the current annual value of the entire global 🌍 #mining ⚒️ industry.
The current level of investment 💵 into #SpaceExploration and the potential exhaustion of Earth’s resources mean that #AsteroidMining is more of an inevitability than a possibility. https://www.mining-technology.com/comment/asteroid-mining-resource-rich-developing-economies/

#CNN 📆 June 12, 2023 #Scientists found that using #crystals formed in #space 🌌 could create a more stable #cancer drug ⚕️, one that could be administered by a shot 💉 rather than the time-consuming intravenous injection currently used.
#Varda’s first mission will focus on research around ritonavir, a drug traditionally used to treat #HIV but more recently included in the antiviral medication Paxlovid to fight #Covid19 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/spacex-launch-varda-drug-pharma-space-industry-scn/index.html