Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, is prototyping an orbital semiconductor fab using SpaceX Falcon 9 booster payloads, having flown two “fabships” on a July Starlink mission that protected wafer samples and yielded the cleanest particulate-free wafers to date. The startup raised nearly $14 million, plans to iterate over the next two years, and aims to scale production to hundreds-thousands of wafers per flight, eventually targeting larger fabs on SpaceX’s upcoming Starship.