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6 articlesWorking at Varda Space: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Varda Space Industries leverages microgravity to develop pharmaceuticals, focusing on in-house engineering and rapid flight cadence to revolutionize space-based manufacturing.
United Therapeutics Put a Rare-Drug Pipeline on Varda's Orbital Platform. Now the Company Needs a Workforce That Doesn't Exist Yet.
Varda Space Industries completed its sixth successful reentry with the W-6 mission, landing a capsule at Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. The mission carried payloads from Rhea Space Activity, Sandia National Laboratory, and NASA Ames, funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Prometheus
A 20-foot solar aircraft just flew for weeks at 60,000 feet — and a 50-person startup is hiring 600 people to build more
Icarus Industries is developing APOLLO, a 20-foot solar-powered autonomous aircraft that flies at 60,000 feet and stays aloft for weeks. Founded in 2023 by Georgia Tech aerospace engineer Henry Kwan, the company argues the stratosphere fills a gap between satellites and ground infrastructure, offeri
Varda Space raised $187M to build pharma's first orbital factory — and it's hiring 19 people a week
Varda Space Industries closed a $187 million Series C round on July 10, 2025, bringing total capital raised to $329 million. The El Segundo-based startup plans to use the funds to increase launch cadence toward monthly missions and expand its new 10,000-square-foot biologics lab for crystallizing ph
United Therapeutics picked a startup over the ISS to reinvent its lung drugs in microgravity
Varda Space Industries raised $187M in Series C funding, bringing total capital to $329M, to scale orbital pharmaceutical manufacturing. With an FAA reentry license, a collaboration with United Therapeutics, and a production hub in El Segundo, Varda is moving from demonstration missions to repeatabl
Space Industry's $46B Boom Hits a Wall: Nobody Can Find the Workers
The space sector is creating thousands of new roles—orbital servicing technicians, in-space manufacturing specialists, lunar logistics planners—yet still recruits from the same narrow talent pools. Judith Delany's SpaceWatchGL opinion piece argues the industry's conservative hiring practices are bli
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