31-10-2016 15:43 via uk.news.yahoo.com

California Startup Made In Space to Make Optical Fiber in Orbit

Early next year, California-based startup Made In Space plans to launch a machine to the International Space Station (ISS) that will produce ZBLAN optical fiber. So the Made In Space machine will churn out ZBLAN in the microgravity conditions aboard the ISS, and the product will soon be returned to Earth for testing.
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