/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15681810
spacenews and cnbc have articles about this too

https://spacenews.com/redwire-and-sierra-space-partner-on-commercial-space-station-biotech-research-platform/

> The two companies announced Aug. 21 that Redwire will provide a set of equipment that will be installed on a Sierra Space inflatable module known as Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE). That “pathfinder” module will be launched later this decade for commercial pharmaceutical and other biotech research.

> In an interview, Mike Gold, chief growth officer of Redwire, called the agreement the first of its kind. “For the first time, a private sector company has contracted with another private sector company for substantive microgravity research and development hardware for pharmaceutical development.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/redwire-sierra-partner-to-make-drugs-on-inflatable-space-habitat.html

> * Redwire is putting a biotech technology testbed on Sierra Space’s first mission with its inflatable space habitat.
>* “We go to space not just for science and discovery, but to improve life on Earth,” Mike Gold, Redwire’s chief growth officer, told CNBC.
>* Biological and pharmaceutical research and production is seen as a key customer market for microgravity platforms in space.

> Biological and pharmaceutical research and production is seen as a key customer market for microgravity platforms in space. Redwire is not alone in targeting that market, with startups like Varda and Space Forge also working on such testbeds.

so all in all, there is Varda, Spaceforge, Redwire partnering with Sierra and maybe even Axiom ( >>15682048 one of the investors is a korean healtcare investment firm) targeting Pharma manufacturing in space
seems like Varda is about to get competition even before they demonstrate it works, allthough the CNBC video did say that the principle has already been demonstrated on skylab 50 years ago >>15679949