Private Varda space capsule to land in Utah today in historic in-space manufacturing reentry (update)

Varda Space Industries' first-ever in-space manufacturing mission W-1 will return to Earth today with its commercial payload, with a reentry planned over the U.S. military's Utah Test and Training Range or nearby Dugway Proving Ground. Late Tuesday, Varda reported that the W-1 capsule's Rocket Lab built Curie engine successfully executed the 2nd of 4 planned burns for the planned reentry.got permission from the U.S.

. While in orbit, the W-1 capsule has been growing crystals of Ritonavir, an antiviral drug used to treat HIV and hepatitis C. The W-1 landing will mark the second time in less than five months that a spacecraft has touched down in northern Utah. On Sept. 23, 2023, the return capsule of NASA's asteroid-sampling

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Private Varda Space capsule returns to Earth with space-grown antiviral drug aboardMichael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
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