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Space Cargo Unlimited books 2028 Starship flight for orbital factory

The Luxembourg-based company's factory will hold one ton of material, ten times the load of its current missions, on SpaceX's new Starfall reentry vehicle.

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Space Cargo Unlimited prepares for 2028 orbital factory launch
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Space Cargo Unlimited, a Luxembourg-based space manufacturing company, has secured a dedicated mission aboard SpaceX's new Starfall reentry vehicle, with the flight expected to ride a Starship rocket in 2028.[6] The company plans to manufacture products in space on the mission.[1] Its planned space factory will have capacity for one ton of materials, ten times the 100 kilograms its current missions carry.[7]
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  1. Space Cargo Unlimited, a European space manufacturing company, announced a contract to manufacture products in space aboard Starfall, a SpaceX reentry vehicle that the company plans to launch on a Starship rocket in 2028. · EL NACIONAL
  2. The European Space Agency's Space Environment Report for 2025 stated that more than 300 rocket launches and over 4,000 new payloads were added to Earth's orbit during 2025. · El InformadorMexico
  3. In 2024, Tokyo-based Astroscale was commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a reconnaissance for a possible future decluttering mission; its ADRAS-J inspector satellite navigated to an 11-metre-long Japanese H-IIA rocket stage, returned high-resolution imagery, and demonstrated collision-avoidance capability, but a separate mission would be needed to actually remove the rocket stage from orbit. · Hindustan TimesIndia
  4. Jared Isaacman stated that thanks to President Donald Trump's space policy, moon rocket production is becoming standardized and robotic missions will fly to the moon at a cadence of almost once a month starting in 2027. · ZeroHedgeUnited States
  5. Astronomers have catalogued the 40,000th Near-Earth asteroid, with 2,000 of them posing potential impact threats to Earth. · Daily StarUnited Kingdom
  6. Space Cargo Unlimited, a Luxembourg-based company, announced that it secured a dedicated mission on SpaceX's new Starfall reentry vehicle, expected to launch on a Starship rocket in 2028. · Payload
  7. Space Cargo Unlimited's planned space factory will have capacity for one ton of materials, ten times the 100-kilogram capacity used in its current missions. · EL NACIONAL
  8. ESA warned that even if launches stopped entirely, space debris could keep growing due to fragmentations, potentially triggering the Kessler syndrome and making certain orbital regions unusable. · El InformadorMexico
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