It’s not quite a chip factory in orbit yet, but that’s the end goal of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/space-forge-to-pioneer-semiconductor-manufacturing-in-space-with-first-satellite-launch-in-2025″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/space-forge-to-pioneer-semiconductor-manufacturing-in-space-with-first-satellite-launch-in-2025″>yet another project to build processors in space. Washington D.C.–based startup data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.besxar.com/media/besxar-signs-launch-agreement-with-spacex-to-pioneer-orbital-semiconductor-manufacturing” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.besxar.com/media/besxar-signs-launch-agreement-with-spacex-to-pioneer-orbital-semiconductor-manufacturing” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Besxar just announced that it has inked a 12-launch deal with SpaceX to test an idea I would have discarded as science-fiction nonsense before: manufacturing semiconductors in the hard vacuum of space.
The company’s prototype manufacturing pods, called “Fabships,” will hitch rides on the boosters of Falcon 9 rockets starting late this year. Each booster…
