BESXAR FLIES FIRST SUBORBITAL SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEMO, BANKING ON FREE VACUUM IN SPACE

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Besxar, a $9.35 million seed-funded startup, flew its first mission on July 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 alongside a Starlink batch, carrying its own semiconductor wafers plus test wafers from the University of Virginia and UT Austin. The company's pitch is simple: Earth-based fabs spend billions on pumps to create the vacuum semiconductors need, but in space vacuum is free, so Besxar wants to manufacture higher-quality, lower-cost wafers in orbit and return them to Earth to sell.