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All these different environmental conditions are all simulated on the ground, then you cross-correlate the results.

And you have an estimated understanding of whats going to happen to this material once it goes into space… Thats something that you wouldnt get on Earth.

UK startup Space DOTS wants to test space materials… well, in space

What were doing is just based on pure physics.

The plan is to allow customers to get into space in a framework of months rather than years.

And Cefalo hopes the Space DOTS approach can help the space industry catch up with progress in materials science.

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You will find aluminium alloys, titanium, some plastics a very basic database of materials.

They need to be tested directly there.

They founded Space DOTS in 2021.

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The company is currently in the process of raising a 1.5 million pre-seed round.

Vision

Cefalo sees Space DOTS future as filling an essential gap to fulfil the space industrys potential.

If youre thinking about where the space industry is going, its going well beyond spacecraft and rockets.

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So far, nobodys really thought about that.

She doesnt want Space DOTS to be seen as revolutionary.

We will never be the ones removing what has been done so far.

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The software simulation and the lab simulation will always need to happen.

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