VIDEO
Delivering world-first capability for orbital semiconductor manufacturing
Video Summary
Alastair McGibbon. Head of Semiconductors at Space Forge, explains that the company has successfully generated plasma aboard ForgeStar®-1 - a world-first for commercial in-space manufacturing. This demonstration confirms that the conditions needed for gas-phase crystal growth can now be created and controlled on an autonomous platform in low Earth orbit. Alastair outlines the company’s focus on wide- and ultra-wide bandgap materials that underpin critical technologies, with the aim to help improve efficiency, performance and resilience.
