Varda Space Industries
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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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Seeing this is best way to confirm that W-8 is, indeed, back on Earth.
馃摳Will Godward
馃摳Will Godward
At 5:10am PST today, W-8 performed its final deorbit burn and is reentering Earth's atmosphere. This means recoverable data of the hypersonic environment for our government customer payloads onboard.
Here's how Varda brings a capsule home.
Here's how Varda brings a capsule home.
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We are making drugs in space aboard W-7 as we tweet.
Designing a molecule to destroy a disease-causing protein is one problem. Getting that molecule to form a crystal for human use is another.
PROTACs recruit the cell鈥檚 machinery to break down targeted proteins. Their size and flexibility make them difficult to pack into an orderly crystal lattice. That affects how they dissolve and how they can be formulated into medicines.
So, we're changing their manufacturing conditions.
W-7 is investigating whether microgravity can produce PROTAC crystal forms that are difficult to obtain on Earth.
The question: Can we overcome a crystallization bottleneck in drug development?
The impact: Giving promising compounds a path toward medicines patients can use.
Not a hypothetical question. We're running the experiment right now, above your head. The answer is already in orbit.
Designing a molecule to destroy a disease-causing protein is one problem. Getting that molecule to form a crystal for human use is another.
PROTACs recruit the cell鈥檚 machinery to break down targeted proteins. Their size and flexibility make them difficult to pack into an orderly crystal lattice. That affects how they dissolve and how they can be formulated into medicines.
So, we're changing their manufacturing conditions.
W-7 is investigating whether microgravity can produce PROTAC crystal forms that are difficult to obtain on Earth.
The question: Can we overcome a crystallization bottleneck in drug development?
The impact: Giving promising compounds a path toward medicines patients can use.
Not a hypothetical question. We're running the experiment right now, above your head. The answer is already in orbit.
W-7 is officially in low Earth orbit and all systems are nominal! Got questions about this payload? We鈥檙e here to answer them. Learn more below.
