OUR MISSION
Astral Materials is catalyzing humanity's next material age — where microgravity is used as a tool to advance Earth's existing technologies and enable those that have yet to be imagined.
TEMPERATURE
PRESSURE
Humanity’s mastery of copper smelting led to the creation of technologies, tools, and weapons that defined the Bronze Age.
circa 5000 BCE
While the first steam-powered device was invented in 50 CE, it took another seventeen centuries for the steam engine to fuel the Industrial Revolution.
circa 50 CE
VACUUM
The demonstration of laboratory vacuum later enabled crystal growth techniques in the 20th century that were foundational for the Digital Age.
circa 1643
In just the last 50 years, over 160 in-space crystal growth experiments demonstrated remarkable improvements in material quality, but limited access to space stalled progress.
Until now.
