Outpost Technologies Corporation has launched Space Factories, a programme enabling companies to manufacture products in orbit without developing their own space infrastructure. The service provides standardised, reusable manufacturing modules, spacecraft, and Earth-return systems as a shared platform. The company will produce StarFiber, its own metal fluoride optical fibre, as the first product. These fibres offer lower signal loss than conventional silica fibres but require microgravity to avoid defects during production. Space Factories uses Outpost's CarryAll spacecraft as the foundation, providing power, communications, and recovery systems. Customers only customise the innermost manufacturing module, whilst sharing common infrastructure across missions. Recovered equipment can be refurbished and reflown. The platform targets products including optical fibres, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced crystals that benefit from microgravity manufacturing. Companies can contact Outpost to discuss manufacturing modules.

Outpost Technologies (Outpost Space) appoints Jamie Landers as company President.