Outpost gives advanced materials companies access to microgravity manufacturing and a direct path back to Earth, enabling material properties and production methods difficult to achieve under terrestrial conditions.
Gravity shapes how materials solidify, separate and form. In microgravity, reduced convection and sedimentation can create more uniform structures, lower defect rates and greater material purity.
That gives manufacturers a new process environment for improving materials that already underpin critical industries on Earth.
change the material.
| Semiconductors | Optical materials | Crystals & specialty materials |
|---|---|---|
| Microgravity can improve crystal growth by reducing defects and compositional variation, creating opportunities for higher-quality semiconductor materials. For materials such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, better crystal quality can improve performance across power electronics, RF systems and other demanding applications. | Reduced gravitational effects during production can support more uniform optical materials and fibers with the potential for lower signal loss and improved performance. That can translate into advantages across telecommunications, sensing, medical imaging and defense systems. | Microgravity provides a controlled environment for growing crystals and other high-value materials where purity, structural consistency and defect density directly affect performance. The result is a new manufacturing pathway for materials that reach physical or economic limits on Earth. |
Microgravity can enable advanced materials with lower defect density in silicon carbide and gallium nitride crystals, improved compositional uniformity across each wafer, and higher-purity seed crystals for scaling domestic production on Earth. By improving material quality and reducing reliance on imported gallium and germanium, orbital manufacturing can help strengthen more resilient U.S. supply chains for critical semiconductors.
Earth-changing performance.
Power electronics
Higher-quality semiconductor materials can support greater efficiency, faster switching and improved performance in EVs, grid systems and industrial equipment.
AI infrastructure
More efficient power conversion can reduce energy loss across data centers and high-performance computing systems.
Telecommunications and sensing
Advanced optical materials can improve signal transmission, sensing performance and communications infrastructure.
Defense systems
High-performance semiconductor and optical materials support radar, electronic warfare, communications and other mission-critical systems.
Advanced materials manufacturing requires control across the entire mission, from production conditions in orbit through recovery on Earth.
CarryAll provides a pressurized, temperature-controlled manufacturing environment, high-power payload support and reusable Earth return within one mission architecture.
That allows customers to design around the material and its production process, rather than stitching together separate systems for manufacturing and recovery.