{"id":1183989,"date":"2023-09-20T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183989"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:02:27","slug":"permission-denied-for-reentry-of-vardas-orbiting-experiment-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183989","title":{"rendered":"Permission denied for reentry of Varda\u2019s orbiting experiment capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vardacapsule1-800x601-1.jpe\" alt=\"Varda's reentry capsule measures nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter, and will jettison from its Rocket Lab-built carrier spacecraft when the mission is ready to return to Earth.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vardacapsule1.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1127\" data-width=\"1500\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Varda&#8217;s reentry capsule measures nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter, and will jettison from its Rocket Lab-built carrier spacecraft when the mission is ready to return to Earth. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VardaSpace\/status\/1671621386065027072\/photo\/1\">Varda Space Industries<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A first-of-its-kind commercial spacecraft owned by an in-space manufacturing startup called Varda Space Industries has been in orbit two months longer than originally planned, waiting for government approval to return to Earth with a cache of pharmaceutical specimens.<\/p>\n<p>Varda&#8217;s satellite launched on June 12 for what was <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/07\/in-space-manufacturing-startup-aces-pharma-experiment-in-orbit\/\">originally supposed to be a month-long mission<\/a> to demonstrate the company&#8217;s technology for producing commercial materials, mainly pharmaceuticals, inside a recoverable capsule designed to return the products to Earth for laboratory analysis and eventual commercial exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>However, the recovery of Varda&#8217;s capsule is on hold after the Federal Aviation Administration and the US Air Force recently declined to give Varda approval to land its spacecraft in a remote part of Utah. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/09\/15\/varda-space-puts-off-orbital-factory-reentry-pending-air-force-and-faa-green-light\/\">TechCrunch first reported<\/a> the FAA turned down Varda&#8217;s application for a commercial reentry license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969942#p3\">Read 17 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969942&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Permission denied for reentry of Varda\u2019s orbiting experiment capsule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Varda&#8217;s reentry capsule measures nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter, and will jettison from its Rocket Lab-built carrier spacecraft when the mission is ready to return to Earth. 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