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“No company should have to become a spacecraft company just to find out whether their product is better when it’s made in space” - Amir Blachman, President and Co-Founder, Outpost Introducing Space Factories. Customers bring their manufacturing process. We’re building the spacecraft, power and thermal systems, standardized manufacturing modules, and precision Earth return to take products from production in orbit to delivery on Earth. All operated as a service. First off the line will be StarFiber, our own optical fiber, produced in orbit on the same platform we’re building for customers. Read more about our Space Factories announcement below: https://lnkd.in/gsBam5qt

Seventy years ago, Malcolm McLean changed global trade by standardizing the shipping container. Ten years ago, SpaceX changed access to space by making rockets reusable. Now, Outpost is building the next layer: through-space logistics. In this video, we trace the logistics revolutions that made modern commerce possible and show Outpost’s latest high-speed C-130 drop test, including Stage 2 and Stage 3 deployment of the final vehicle architecture. Outpost is building space-rated shipping containers designed to move payloads through orbit and return them safely to Earth.

As SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, Stoke Space and others expand access to orbit, the next critical challenge is return. Future missions will require more than access to orbit. They will require the ability to move payloads back to Earth with speed, precision and control. Outpost’s latest high-speed C-130 drop test validated key through-air stages of our Earth-return architecture, including drogue deployment, paraglider deployment, and precision landing. Each test advances a reusable return system designed to support responsive logistics, orbital warehousing, and mission-critical payload delivery from space to Earth. Watch how Outpost is building the next layer of logistics.

Launch has scaled. Precision earth return is next. Outpost has successfully validated the final two stages of its re-entry architecture: drogue deployment, paraglider deployment, as well as autonomous payload delivery. In a field test conducted in Coolidge, Arizona, the system was deployed from a C-130 at 130 knots and autonomously delivered its payload just 11.1 meters from the target ground coordinates. This milestone comes ahead of upcoming demonstrations with the Army Training Support Center and Naval Air Systems Command, and marks a critical step toward precision return from orbit. Until Outpost, no one in the world has flown a full-scale robotic paraglider at these altitudes.

Launch has scaled. Precision earth return is next. Outpost has successfully validated the final two stages of its re-entry architecture: drogue deployment, paraglider deployment, as well as autonomous payload delivery. In a field test conducted in Coolidge, Arizona, the system was deployed from a C-130 at 130 knots and autonomously delivered its payload just 11.1 meters from the target ground coordinates. This milestone comes ahead of upcoming demonstrations with the Army Training Support Center and Naval Air Systems Command, and marks a critical step toward precision return from orbit. Until Outpost, no one in the world has flown a full-scale robotic paraglider at these altitudes.

How does life change when cargo ships through space? When a shipping container can reach any point on Earth in under an hour? Disaster relief, military logistics, constrained supplies for critical manufacturing like pharmaceutical (like what is happening today in the Strait of Hormuz) all solved. We build reusable, through-space shipping containers to solve that problem. See how Outpost is building exologistics - the next wave of global shipping: