{"id":37759,"date":"2025-05-14T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/14\/varda-lands-third-space-capsule-carrying-key-hypersonic-flight-data\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:10:40","slug":"varda-lands-third-space-capsule-carrying-key-hypersonic-flight-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2025\/05\/14\/varda-lands-third-space-capsule-carrying-key-hypersonic-flight-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Varda lands third space capsule, carrying key hypersonic flight data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Varda Space Industries, a California-based, in-orbit manufacturing company, recovered its third reentry capsule Wednesday, providing new data to support the Air Force Research Laboratory\u2019s hypersonic research efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funded by AFRL, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/vardas-w-3-capsule-lands-successfully-in-south-australia-302454970.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/vardas-w-3-capsule-lands-successfully-in-south-australia-302454970.html\">Varda\u2019s W-3 capsule<\/a> launched March 14 on Rocket Lab\u2019s Pioneer satellite, which provided power, communications and propulsion for the system. It landed May 13 at Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Varda capsule carried an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2025\/05\/09\/northrop-tests-tech-to-help-hypersonic-vehicles-maneuver-without-gps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2025\/05\/09\/northrop-tests-tech-to-help-hypersonic-vehicles-maneuver-without-gps\/\">inertial measurement unit<\/a> \u2014 built for the Air Force by Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated and designed to allow systems to navigate and maneuver without GPS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Varda, the W-3 capsule reentered Earth\u2019s atmosphere at speeds that exceeded Mach 25, considered an \u201cextreme\u201d environment that can provide the military with new information about how systems perform in hypersonic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe W-3 mission will provide unprecedented data to advance next-generation space and defense capabilities and continue to provide hypersonic environments to the reentry test community,\u201d Dave McFarland, Varda\u2019s Vice President of Hypersonic and Reentry Test, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/industry\/2023\/08\/07\/the-pentagons-embrace-of-startups-could-fuel-hypersonic-tech\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/industry\/2023\/08\/07\/the-pentagons-embrace-of-startups-could-fuel-hypersonic-tech\/\">Varda was founded in 2021<\/a> with a plan to send \u201cproduction facility\u201d satellites to space and manufacture everything from pharmaceuticals to fiber-optic cables in a zero-gravity environment. Because the capsules it uses to return the objects to Earth travel through a hypersonic environment, AFRL and NASA have partnered with the firm to use those vehicles as high-speed, reusable testbeds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That application helped Varda secure a $60 million strategic funding increase in 2023 from AFRL, NASA and several private investors. Last November, AFRL awarded the company a four-year, $48 million contract to continue testing military payload reentry through a program called Prometheus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Varda recovered its first capsule in 2024 in Utah and its second in February, also at the Koonibba Test Range. Varda\u2019s fourth spacecraft is in the midst of integration and testing in California at Rocket Lab\u2019s Spacecraft Production Complex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has indicated that its first two successful missions proved the versatility of its W-series vehicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varda.com\/announcements\/an-update-on-varda-after-w-2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.varda.com\/announcements\/an-update-on-varda-after-w-2\">to fly a range of payloads<\/a> and have given it the confidence to shift its focus to increasing the system\u2019s launch cadence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor our pharmaceutical customers, increased cadence means we are able to more closely match drug development timelines,\u201d the company said in a May 8 press release. \u201cFor defense customers, it allows for faster iteration between tests. 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