Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
Orbital manufacturing
Recorded year2024
Factories in orbit make fibre optics, crystals and drugs that are hard to make in gravity.
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Led to
- Chip crystals grown in orbitForecast · ~2032enables
- Chip fabs in orbitForecast · ~2065enables
- Orbital scrap recyclingForecast · ~2066enables
- Orbital shipyardsForecast · ~2066enables
- Alloys only made in orbitForecast · ~2074enables
- Self-sustaining Mars settlementForecast · ~2075enables
- Asteroid foundriesForecast · ~2080enables
- Orbital freight networkForecast · ~2080enables
- Nanoassembly in orbitForecast · ~2085enables
- Orbital chemical plantsForecast · ~2087enables
- Lunar glass and metal supplyForecast · ~2093enables
- Orbital megastructuresForecast · ~2094enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.