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Space Business Podcast #117 - Jessica Frick, Stanford XLab, In-Space Manufacturing of Advanced Materials

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In-space manufacturing is what we are discussing in this episode, and we have a really cool and qualified guest: Jessica Frick is a researcher at Stanford’s XLab, the extreme environment microsystems lab. They recently held a workshop on semiconductor manufacturing in microgravity, just published a white paper about it (linked below), and are now setting up an institute focused on manufacturing advanced materials in microgravity. Enjoy!

The Institute for In-Space Manufacturing of Advanced Materials

https://rb.gy/b4661j

White paper: Semiconductor Manufacturing in Low-Earth Orbit for Terrestrial Use

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/d6ar4

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    Timestamps:

    0:00 Intro
    2:20 Intro to XLab & Jessica
    4:37 Jessica's origin story & motivation
    8:54 Semiconductor manufacturing primer
    14:15 In-space manufacturing for Earth
    15:58 Which part of semi manufacturing makes sense to do in space
    17:30 Advantages of microgravity 
    18:50 Could it be done on Earth?
    20:25 Advantages of microgravity (cont'd)
    26:20 Semiconductor materials besides silicon
    28:50 Why larger crystals are better
    35:45 Why now?
    38:45 Safety & astronaut intervention
    40:30 Microgravity platforms besides the ISS
    41:40 Importance of subject matter expertise
    45:00 Origin of the idea for the new institute
    54:55 Current ISS equipment
    55:55 The Institute for In-Space Manufacturing of Advanced Materials
    1:02:00 How to get involved
    1:04:25 Sci-fi

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