{"id":13163,"date":"2023-06-22T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1397334"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:56:02","slug":"defying-gravity-this-uk-based-startup-is-unlocking-the-potential-of-the-space-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=13163","title":{"rendered":"Defying gravity: This UK-based startup is unlocking the potential of the space economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story is syndicated<\/a> from the premium edition of PreSeed Now<\/a>, a newsletter that digs into the product, market, and founder story of UK-founded startups so you can understand how they fit into what\u2019s happening in the wider world and startup ecosystem.<\/em><\/p>\n

The space race is back on, with a growing number of commercial operators keen to follow in SpaceX\u2019s exhaust trail.<\/p>\n

This means there\u2019s real demand to accelerate the timelines for testing a wide range of devices and materials for use up in space. After our recent coverage of Space DOTS, let\u2019s take a look at another company doing work in this field.<\/p>\n

Gravitilab<\/a><\/strong> is opening up new opportunities for testing in <\/span>microgravity<\/a> \u2014 the weightlessness experienced in space, which can make anything we take up there work differently to how it does on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of the grand challenges facing humanity: climate change, feeding the world, healthcare challenges, and in our sector, space debris \u2013 they all require access to microgravity for research and testing,\u201d says CEO <\/span>Rob Adlard<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that market is really choked. In fact, it\u2019s not a true market right now. And so we\u2019re blowing this wide open with some new hardware and a new approach to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Practically speaking, what Norfolk-based Gravitilab does is take a research experiment or a piece of industrial hardware from a customer, putting it in microgravity and then returning it with data about what happened.<\/p>\n

To this end, the startup is developing two products. The first is a UAV called LOUIS that can generate a few seconds of microgravity without going into space (you might have seen this <\/span>in the news<\/a> a couple of months ago). <\/span><\/p>\n

The second is a suborbital launch vehicle called ISAAC that will take payloads into space for a few minutes before returning them.<\/p>\n

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