A Company Started by “Two Blocks in a Cardiff Garage”
Space Forge Will Ship its Prototype Manufacturing Satellite in the Coming Weeks From the Industrial Park in the City to the Us
Sky News Was Given Exclusive Access to the Company’s Dust-Free ‘Clean Room’ to Watch Engineers Carry Out Final Checks.
Forgestar-1 is altered loaded up with the raw ingredients to make a new generation of super-efficiency semiconductor chips that would be impossible.
Joshua Western, The Company’s Co-Founder, Said: “This is the Next Industrial Revolution Buttings in Space, it’s note on Earth.”
Semiconductors are found in almost All Electronic Technology. They’re Currently Made from Silicon Crystals, But The Material Has a Performance CEiling.
This Prototype Satellite Aims to Make a New Generation of Raw Materials for Super-Effective Semiconductor Chips
Howver, in the Microgravity and Vacuum of Space It’s Possible to Make Crystals from A New Mix of Chemical Compounds that Wool Computer Chips to Work Fast Who Consuming.
“Joshua Said.
“In The Uk Alone, We’re Talking Billions of Pounds Being In the Energy Bill Alone.
“That’s in Terms of Consumer Mobile Data, But Also Data Applications That Are Really (Energy) Hungry – Artificial Intelligigence, Quantum Computing, and All the Way Down To People Using Chatgpt at Home.”
Forgestar-1 is being examined ahead of its launch on a spacex rocket in the coming weeks
The prototype will test the process of machinery the material, and it’s been given in-orbit advanced manufacturing license by the Civil Aviation Authority.
IF it Works, The Next Mission Will Be for Real, Production Pure Cults That Could Be Clone.
The Company Reckons Such High-Grade Material for Electronics Cultronics Could Be Worth Up To £ 45m Per Kilogram, Far Outstripping The Cost of Launching on a Rocket.
But to Safly Bring A Precien Cargo Back to the Planet, The Company Has Had to Design its Own Lightweight Heat Shield Able to Withstand High Temperatures as it Plunges Through The Atmospherere.
Technicians Hope The Microgravity and Vacuum of Space Can Be Used To Make Advanced Types of Crystals
Its Called Pridwen, named after King Arthur’s Shield, and it’s Folded, Origami-Style, into A Tiny Space UNLES NEEDED.
It spRes Open Like an Umbrella to Protect the Satellite and Slow it down so that it gently splashes down in the ocean, where it can be picked up.
Forgestar-1 is a pioneer.
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The UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult, Which Supports Space Start-ups, Says Everything from Stronger Metal Alloys to Powerful Cancer Drugs Coul in Future Be Made in Space.
Nafeesa Dajda, Chief of Missions at the Catapult, Said Britain is Taking the Lead.
“She Said.
“There’s an opportunity now to Think About How Use In A Different Way and the Unique Environment that Space Provides, That Microgravity Environment, Means We Can Do Things We Just Can’t Do On Earth.
“So How Big Could This Be for the Uk? Hugge.
“We’ve estimated that the opportunity is the around £ 20bn to the uk economy over the next 10 years.”
Space Forge Co-Founder, Joshua Western, Believes Rawes Materials Made in Space Could Significantly Cut Energy Use Back On Earth
At space forge hq the team will be anxious to see the Satellite Leave for the US After Years of Development Work. Its A Story That Could Have Come Come on Straight from Silicon Valley.
“Said Joshua,” Said Joshua.
“There is an optimism with technology now (in the uk) that we didn’t always used to have.
“There is a new life in the industation base, especially around Engineering, and that’s despite all the challenges that it has right now.”
