Gsus4@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoMade in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to realitywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoI’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.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoUnobtanium… 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.
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.
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.