When you think of pioneering space technology you most likely think of Nasa, the Apollo missions, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, or Yuri Gagarin blasting off into the great unknown.
You probably don’t think of an industrial estate in Rumney.
But while it may look incredibly unsuspecting, and be some 4,000 miles from Cape Canaveral, Eastgate Business Park is home to a company that has given the global space industry real cause for excitement.
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Set up by friends Josh Western and Andrew Bacon in 2018, Space Forge Ltd is focused on transforming the way humanity makes products through harnessing the unique conditions of space.
The start-up’s current focus is on the development of the world’s first returnable satellite which will be used to produce materials that are impossible to manufacture on Earth – such as new alloys, medicines, and semiconductors – and lead what its founders call a “new, clean industrial revolution”.
Having only moved into their Cardiff lab earlier this year, and with a provisional…