Varda Space Industries

We are looking forward to presenting research at the AAPS and AIChE conferences later this month. Varda Chief Science Officer Adrian Radocea will give an oral presentation at the annual meeting of AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers describing Varda's hypergravity research. Senior Product Engineer Haley Bauser will present a poster at American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | @aapscomms detailing the successful crystallization of a metastable form III of Ritonavir during Varda's first mission in orbit, alongside our partners IMPROVED PHARMA, LLC. Get in touch to meet up if you will be in Salt Lake City or San Diego, and stop by Varda's talks on pharmaceuticals in space.??? https://lnkd.in/g9XqQNNW

We're #hiring a new Spacecraft Engineering Internship (Mission Operations) - Spring/Summer 2025 in El Segundo, California. Apply today or share this post with your network.

Don't miss our VP of Biopharma BD Mark Herbert at the Octane OC Medical Innovation Forum tomorrow. Mark and panelists will discuss the impact of emerging technologies on healthcare and medtech, including the ways microgravity can benefit pharmaceutical processing. https://lnkd.in/eMPMQegZ

In addition to growing launch cadence, spaceflight will also begin to include regular Earth returns. We’ll have to adapt the regulatory regime to keep pace by augmenting existing regulations with?standard safety metrics, argues CEO Will Bruey in an op-ed for Payload this week. "The existing regulations’ bottom-up approach was valid when launch was nascent, but as the industry matures, defining more standards will allow more companies like Varda to lift industrial operations off our home planet and bring back the goods at scale." Read more: https://lnkd.in/emGk2qfD

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Today we’re announcing a research collaboration with SSPC, Research Ireland Centre for Pharmaceuticals, to develop mathematical modeling of gravity’s role during crystallization. This is the first model of its kind to link polymorphism to gravity, and leads to a deeper understanding of which medicines are most likely to be improved via processing in microgravity. ?? "While the behavior of fluids in microgravity is well understood, the link between fluid motion and crystallization outcomes—especially with respect to changes in the resulting crystal structure—remains largely unexplored," said Varda Chief Science Officer Adrian Radocea. "Our research collaboration with SSPC lays the foundation for directly understanding polymorphic outcomes from first principles, taking into account molecule-specific parameters, as well as the thermodynamics and kinetics that underpin crystallization." https://lnkd.in/g_kEZEDv

We are happy to announce that Varda received our FAA reentry license for our upcoming second mission launching in early November. This flight will advance pharmaceutical research as well as fly several payloads in support of NASA and other government partners.? ? It's an honor to work with @FAANews’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation towards a shared vision of safe, high-cadence transit to and from a thriving orbital economy. This license represents a lot of collaborative work and we look forward to many more missions to come. (?? Thanks to Rocket Lab!)

Varda joined Congressman Jim Banks for the third year in a row to discuss how to energize our country's defense industrial base. The Northeastern Indiana Defense Forum continues to be an incredible opportunity to connect the defense community and talk about strategies to evolve the science and technology needed to defend our nation.? ? Thanks to Sam Gray, Nicholas Estep, LtCol, PhD and Office of Congressman Jim Banks for having our co-founder and president Delian Asparouhov for a thoughtful discussion on defense innovation.?

Internships are officially open for the Spring/Summer 2025 positions at Varda Space Industries! Interested in working at the forefront of vehicle and mission critical software, trajectory design and control systems? Check out the following reqs: Flight and Mission Software: https://lnkd.in/giDVeEzf Guidance, Navigation and Controls: https://lnkd.in/gFgGMk6K Interested in full-time or other fields? Check out all our open reqs at varda.com/careers!

We're #hiring a new Spacecraft Engineering Internship (Aerodynamics) - Spring/Summer 2025 in El Segundo, California. Apply today or share this post with your network.