Overview
- Redwire has opened a 30,000-square-foot facility in Georgetown, Indiana, that centralizes laboratories and on‑site operations for experiments designed for microgravity environments.
- The building includes a Payload Operations Control Center that lets researchers communicate in real time with astronauts aboard the International Space Station to run and monitor experiments.
- Company officials say the site will support NASA‑contracted work on space‑manufactured pharmaceuticals, including efforts to create drug polymorphs—different crystal forms of a drug that can have distinct properties and in some cases are easier to make in microgravity.
- The facility already employs engineers, scientists and technicians and was publicly celebrated by Indiana Governor Mike Braun as a source of high‑wage local jobs and state economic growth.
- The project extends a broader industry trend of commercial firms building ground hubs to design, manage and analyze ISS research and could speed pharmaceutical research and future work for commercial space stations.