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After growing vine shoots on the International Space Station, a Frenchman wants to use a shuttle for applied research.
Interview by Guillaume Grallet
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IImagine a vessel 4.5 m long, fully automated and designed to perform around twenty two-month missions 350 kilometers from Earth. This is what REV1 might look like, the breathtaking project of the Franco-Luxembourgish start-up Space Cargo Unlimited. After having established a partnership with the Franco-Italian manufacturer Thales Alenia Space, the latter wishes to launch a floating factory in space.
The shuttle, capable of carrying up to 1 ton of material, wishes to use micro-gravity to make breakthroughs in the fields of biotechnology, the development of new materials or the development of innovative agricultural solutions. “In the absence of Earth’s gravity, better performing alloys or more conductive fiber optics…
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