Varda’s first capsule, W-1, after landing in Utah in February 2024
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Sometime this week, a 1-metre-wide capsule will fall from the sky and land in the South Australian desert carrying a cargo of drugs.
Since launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 14 January, a reactor on board the capsule has been manufacturing an undisclosed, proprietary pharmaceutical compound.
Varda, the US-based company that built the capsule, is aiming to show that producing drugs in low Earth orbit…
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