Coming soon: manufacturing in space. 

Gravity creates impurities in fiber optic cable. The microgravity of space allows for much purer glass, and therefore superior optical fibers. Made In Space launched a device aboard a recent SpaceX mission that’ll manufacture a kilometer of the new optical fiber as a proof of concept. This could yield 50-100x more bandwidth. learn more

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