California startup Varda Space Industries has completed its third successful space capsule return mission. After 8.5 weeks in orbit, W-3 softly touched down at the Koonibba Test Range operated by ...

Varda's W-3 capsule landed successfully May 13 at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. (Varda Space Industries) Varda Space Industries, a California-based, in-orbit manufacturing company ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Varda Space Industries, which is building infrastructure and enabling fundamental science for a thriving orbital economy, has successfully ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Varda Space Industries, Inc., a microgravity-enabled life sciences and reentry company, today announced the successful launch of its third ...

As the decades passed and Rickey saw more of Varda’s work, Varda expanded and deepened Rickey’s ideas not just about female filmmakers but about what it meant to be a filmmaker in general.

Agnès Varda is a central modern filmmaker, and Carrie Rickey’s fervently detailed and briskly narrated new biography, “A Complicated Passion” (Norton), reveals that the coalescence of Varda ...

April 5 (Reuters) - Varda Space Industries, a startup that is developing technology to produce drugs autonomously in space, said on Friday it has raised $90 million in a funding round led by ...

On Feb. 21, after some seven months in space, Varda Space Industries' W-1 capsule successfully returned to Earth, carrying with it a unique payload: the HIV/AIDS medication ritonavir. Varda Space ...

Varda Space Industries says it has a way to create better medicines: use microgravity. The startup recently recovered a capsule it launched into space last year to test its ability to produce ...

Varda Space Industries is finally able to celebrate. For nearly eight months, the in-space manufacturing company's first mission was essentially stranded in low-Earth orbit, but not because of any ...