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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.

May 14, 2025

Varda's W-3 capsule lands successfully in South Australia

The company partnered with the US Air Force to test an advanced inertial measurement unit to advance scientific understanding of the high-hypersonic reentry environment.

May 8, 2025

An Update on Varda after W-2

Reflections on two early successes and a look towards the future.

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Bloomberg

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

March 15, 2023

CNBC

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

August 5, 2022

Business Wire

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

May 24, 2022

Space News

Varda Space selects SpaceX for launch of first space manufacturing satellite

October 11, 2021

TechCrunch

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

October 11, 2021

Business Wire

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

August 11, 2021

CNBC

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

August 11, 2021

TechCrunch

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

July 29, 2021

CNBC

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

July 29, 2021

AXIOS

Varda Space raises $9 million for manufacturing in space

December 8, 2020

TechCrunch

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

December 8, 2020

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Varda Announcements

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

Varda's W-3 capsule lands successfully in South Australia

An Update on Varda after W-2

More coverage

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

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

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

Varda Space selects SpaceX for launch of first space manufacturing satellite

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

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

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

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

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

Varda Space raises $9 million for manufacturing in space

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

Varda in the News

NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth

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

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Satellite That Makes Drugs in Space

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

Space-Medicines Startup Varda Nabs $187 Million Financing

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

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