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Traditionally, space agencies and world superpowers have conducted chemical synthesis experiments in orbit, yielding results vastly different from those on Earth due to the absence of gravity. These unique conditions enable scientific achievements impossible under Earth’s gravitational pull. Building on this foundation, companies like Space Pharma are pioneering a new era they term the “fourth space revolution.” This revolution involves creating remote-controlled, miniaturized pharmaceutical laboratories aboard satellites or space stations, designed to produce molecules with significantly enhanced properties compared to their Earth-made counterparts.
Space Pharma’s innovative business model leverages the superior efficiency of these space-synthesized molecules. Remarkably, just one gram of such substances produced in microgravity can yield the equivalent of a kilogram of material on Earth, offering a potential 1,000 to 1 return on investment. This breakthrough promises transformative impacts on medical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology research, with profound benefits for health on Earth. Yossi Yamin, Chairman and R&D CEO of SpacePharma, highlights these advantages in his presentation at the XXXI Future Trends Forum, emphasizing the need to implement these ideas and evaluate their commercial potential. This new approach signals a promising future for space-based pharmaceutical development and its applications to improve human health.
The space can become the best laboratory for creating the medicines of the future.
Traditionally, world superpowers and space agencies have experimented with chemical synthesis in orbit. The results are far different from those obtained on Earth and often impossible to achieve under the effects of gravity. Now we are creatign a new Pharmaceutical laboratory in space.
For companies such as Space Pharma, life sciences in orbit or in microgravity are a not-so-distant revolution. They call it ‘the fourth space revolution,’ in which they seek to build remote-controlled miniaturized laboratories in satellites or space stations where they can produce molecules far superior to their equivalents on Earth. The business model lies in the fact that these molecules are much more efficient. With just one gram of these space-produced substances, we can produce a kilogram of material on Earth, a 1,000 to 1 return on investment.
We need to ensure that we can implement those ideas and assess their potential turnover.
A laboratory in the space for health on Earth
Conference by Yossi Yamin, Chairman & R&D CEO at SpacePharma, at the XXXI Future Trends Forum about the Commercialization of Space.
Yossi explains the benefits of microgravity in medical, pharmaceutical laboratory and biotechnology research.
Presidente y CEO de I + D en Space Pharma