Starlab Space LLC of Webster, TX, USA (which is developing an AI-enabled commercial space station, expanding access to low Earth orbit research) has announced a payload reservation agreement with United Semiconductors LLC (USLLC) of Los Alamitos, CA, USA (which since 2005 has been supplying the US defense sector and national laboratories with critical substrates). This will support the transition of USLLC’s space-based micro-gravity semiconductor crystal growth technology from demonstration aboard the International Space Station (ISS, which is to be retired in 2030) to sustained commercial-scale production in low Earth orbit...
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