Varda Space Industries

@VardaSpace

Varda is designing and building the infrastructure needed to make low Earth orbit accessible, from in-orbit production equipment to reliable reentry capsules.

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Joined September 2020

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Varda Space Industries
@VardaSpace
May 13
Varda believes humanity's first space-made product will be a pharmaceutical. Today we announced a research collaboration with United Therapeutics. Together we will explore the use of microgravity to develop improved formulations of medicines for rare pulmonary disease aboard
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Varda Space Industries
@VardaSpace
Aug 3
Mikael Dolsten has joined Varda's Board of Directors. ☄️ Mikael spent 16 years as Chief Scientific Officer and President of Pfizer R&D — overseeing 36+ medicine and vaccine approvals and advancing 150+ drug candidates into clinical studies. As we bring the first space-made
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Varda Space Industries
@VardaSpace
May 23
Last week, we announced a partnership with United Therapeutics that we believe will result in the first commercial products made in space. Read more from @techreview:
MIT Technology Review
@techreview
May 13
United Therapeutics is collaborating with Varda Space Industries to test pharmaceuticals in outer space. trib.al/XZC8zcL
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Varda Space Industries
@VardaSpace
May 22
After nearly a full year in orbit, our W-4 demo mission has come to an end after performing a disposal burn. Cheers to a great vehicle and a great set of data. The W-5 and W-6 missions were even better thanks to what we learned from W-4.
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Varda Space Industries
@VardaSpace
May 20
W-6 is back. This flight pushed on two fronts: autonomous hypersonic navigation and next-generation thermal protection systems. High-cadence reentry missions in repeatable conditions.
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