furnace operation in microgravity

Astral Materials is a company that uses microgravity as a manufacturing tool to produce materials that cannot be made on Earth. It is developing a proprietary microgravity crystal growth furnace and plans parabolic and orbital missions to manufacture materials such as ultra-high quality silicon on-orbit for applications like photonics and quantum computing. The company works with private companies, academics, and government, and has received a NASA TechLeap Prize in partnership with SpaceWorks Enterprises and a Phase II NASA SBIR Ignite award.

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crystal growthmicrogravity manufacturingon-orbit manufacturingsemiconductor melt and recrystallization