{"id":5824,"date":"2025-03-27T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/redwire-awarded-nasa-contract-to-expand-pharmaceutical-drug-development-in-space\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:46:31","slug":"redwire-awarded-nasa-contract-to-expand-pharmaceutical-drug-development-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/redwire-awarded-nasa-contract-to-expand-pharmaceutical-drug-development-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwire Awarded NASA Contract to Expand Pharmaceutical Drug Development in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743059359187_638786561606405607.png\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"711\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Redwire Awarded NASA Contract to Expand Pharmaceutical Drug Development in Space\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743059359187_638786561606405607.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1743059359187_638786561606405607.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"711\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Redwire<\/strong>, a leader in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, has been awarded a <strong>NASA<\/strong> contract to launch four additional pharmaceutical drug investigations to the International Space Station using the company\u2019s innovative Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory (PIL-BOX). The NASA-funded investigations aim to manufacture high-value seed crystals which could inform pharmaceutical manufacturing operations aboard the space station and future commercial space stations in low Earth orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNASA has been an instrumental partner and customer as we\u2019ve scaled our pharmaceutical drug manufacturing program significantly over the last year,\u201d said <strong>John Vellinger<\/strong><strong>, Redwire\u2019s President of In-Space Industries<\/strong>. \u201cAdditional PIL-BOX investigations from NASA and commercial partners will enable Redwire to optimize the infrastructure to launch, test, manufacture, and return high-value space enabled pharmaceutical products and establish a new market in LEO\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What is a Payload Mass of a Satellite Bus?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With 28 units flown and processed to date, PIL-BOX provides pharmaceutical researchers with novel and flexible services to leverage the microgravity environment to grow small-batch crystals of protein-based pharmaceuticals and other key pharmaceutically relevant molecules. Previous spaceflight investigations indicate that growing crystals in space could yield a more uniform product with fewer imperfections, which can improve the drug discovery and development process. Previous investigations have focused on unlocking insights to improve treatments for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redwire, a leader in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, has been awarded a NASA contract to launch four additional pharmaceutical drug investigations to the International Space Station using the company\u2019s innovative Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory (PIL-BOX). The NASA-funded investigations aim to manufacture high-value seed crystals which could inform pharmaceutical manufacturing operations aboard the space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,76,20],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-payload-adapters","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}