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I was just thinking that some manufacturing processes and research techniques require deep vacuum that needs very expensive equipment on earth, but comes for fr

I was just thinking that some manufacturing processes and research techniques require deep vacuum that needs very expensive equipment on earth, but comes for free and in effectively unlimited volume in space. Also we only need a small manufacturing-capable space station to build a larger space station out of materials mined from asteroids.

twic 3y ago
To get deep vacuum, you either need a very high orbit, or one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Shield_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Shield_Facility