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🚀 Deadline Extend

🚀 Deadline Extended: Orbital Edge Accelerator Applications Now Open Until June 4, 2026!

Innovators, startups, and space-tech pioneers—there’s still time to apply to the Orbital Edge Accelerator. Due to strong interest and demand, the application deadline has been extended to June 4, allowing more founders to apply to this unique program with an opportunity to be awarded $500,000 to $750,000. There is also a chance to win the Boeing-sponsored Technology in Space Prize, which consists of $100k in non-dilutive funding.

If you’re building breakthrough solutions in any of the following areas, this is your moment:
• Space technologies with dual-use potential
• Space biotechnology and advanced materials, including in-space manufacturing and drug development

Why apply?
• Access to industry-leading mentors and partners
• Strategic support to accelerate growth and commercialization
• Opportunities to connect with investors and key stakeholders
• A platform to position your innovation at the forefront of the orbital economy

Don’t miss your chance to be part of a cohort driving the next wave of space innovation.
👉 Apply now: ow.ly/Ic3r50Z4tFB

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The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory

Solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges through space-based research.

Where? In space.
Low Earth orbit (LEO), approximately 250 miles above the Earth.

Research in Space Benefits Humanity

Upward Volume 9, Issue 1
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EXPLORE RESULTS FROM RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN SPACE

Upward Volume 9, Issue 1 Available Now

In this issue’s cover story, discover how a biotech startup is using space to manufacture artificial retinas that could restore vision in people with macular degeneration. Other features highlight a new in-orbit capture system that could help remove space debris and a study on how microbes could be used to produce valuable materials on long-duration spaceflight missions.

Photo documentation of the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) platform aboard the International Space Station.

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National Lab research announcements (NLRAs) seek proposals that advance R&D in key areas with demonstrated potential to develop into sustainable markets and benefit humanity.

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