ForgeStar
Space Forge Limited
Reusable in-space manufacturing platform for growing high-value semiconductor materials in microgravity and returning them to Earth.
Technical specifications
- Function
- Reusable in-space manufacturing and return platform
- Payload
- Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) semiconductor growth reactor
- Recovery method
- Pridwen non-ablative reentry heat shield
- Flight heritage
- ForgeStar-0 (2023, launch failure); ForgeStar-1 (June 2025, operated CVD payload 'Lucy' in orbit)
About
ForgeStar is Space Forge’s reusable in-space manufacturing platform, designed to carry semiconductor-growth payloads such as chemical vapor deposition reactors into orbit, expose them to microgravity for improved material quality, and return the produced materials to Earth using the Pridwen reentry heat shield. ForgeStar-0 was lost in a launch failure in 2023, and ForgeStar-1 launched in June 2025 and successfully operated its onboard CVD payload, nicknamed Lucy, in orbit.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
