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Sep 8, 2025

Varda, LeoLabs, and Anduril demonstrate on-orbit maneuver tracking and AI-enabled software integration in advance of a hypersonic reentry

In a first joint demonstration, the companies showed how collaborations among innovative commercial companies can support complex space missions at speed.

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Jul 10, 2025

Varda Announces $187 million in Series C Funding to Make Medicines in Space

The El Segundo-based start-up is building infrastructure to support manufacturing in microgravity and test hypersonic reentry technologies.

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Jun 23, 2025

Varda Space Industries Launches W-4 with the FAA's First-Ever Reentry Vehicle Operator License and Debuts an In-House Satellite Bus

The company's fourth mission will focus on demonstrating its new satellite bus, an in-house heatshield, and solution-based pharmaceutical processing.

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Bloomberg
Bloomberg

Drugs in Orbit: One Startup's Big Idea for Microgravity

March 15, 2023
CNBC
CNBC

Space factory startup Varda secures NASA partnerships ahead of demo flight next year

August 5, 2022
Business Wire
Business Wire

Varda Space Industries Orders Fourth Photon Spacecraft from Rocket Lab to Enable In-Space Manufacturing

May 24, 2022
Space News
Space News

Varda Space selects SpaceX for launch of first space manufacturing satellite

October 11, 2021
TechCrunch
TechCrunch

Varda Space Industries will send its first space factory to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

October 11, 2021
Business Wire
Business Wire

Rocket Lab Inks Deal With Varda Space Industries to Supply Multiple Photon Spacecraft for Space Manufacturing Missions

August 11, 2021
CNBC
CNBC

Rocket Lab and space factories start-up Varda sign deal for three spacecraft

August 11, 2021
TechCrunch
TechCrunch

Varda Space Industries closes $42M Series A for off-planet manufacturing

July 29, 2021
CNBC
CNBC

Space start-up Varda, founded by SpaceX and Founders Fund veterans, aims to build factories in orbit

July 29, 2021
AXIOS
AXIOS

Varda Space raises $9 million for manufacturing in space

December 8, 2020
TechCrunch
TechCrunch

Space manufacturing startup Varda, incubated at Founders Fund, emerges with $9 million in funding

December 8, 2020

Varda in the News

NASA
NASA

NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth

January 29, 2026
NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch

Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works — now it wants to make it boring

November 30, 2025
Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works — now it wants to make it boring
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Gizmodo
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Satellite That Makes Drugs in Space

September 22, 2025
Gizmodo Science Fair: A Satellite That Makes Drugs in Space
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The New York Times
The New York Times

Tech Companies Show Off for Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’

September 8, 2025
Tech Companies Show Off for Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’
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Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal

Space-Medicines Startup Varda Nabs $187 Million Financing

July 10, 2025
Space-Medicines Startup Varda Nabs $187 Million Financing
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NewsNation
NewsNation

Why the future of pharma is off-planet | A live conversation with Varda founder Will Bruey

May 6, 2025
Why the future of pharma is off-planet | A live conversation with Varda founder Will Bruey
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