Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?

My idea of space has been limited to telecommunication & space exploration.

I came across Varda Space Industries, which takes advantage of microgravity to manufacture drugs in ways that would otherwise be extremely difficult to make on earth.

One of the founders hinted that this idea was from reading NASA research on experiments done in space.

Any cool space startup ideas you have based that are not exploration (tourism) or communication?

Or resources that can help me come up with ideas?

5 points | by asxndu 3 hours ago

4 comments

  • purple-leafy 3 hours ago
    Ideas are worth absolutely nothing

    And just thinking of an idea doesn’t mean it will be useful, it helps to have some industry insight otherwise you’re just slinging shit at the wall and seeing what sticks

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    • dlcarrier 1 hour ago
      I worked as an applications engineer for a company that made hardware often used for prototyping. The more secretive someone was with their idea, the less likely they were to be successful, because they assumed the idea was what's valuable, and that the implementation was a minor afterthought.
  • dapperdrake 2 hours ago
    Am also interested in this. Manufacturing for the win.
  • fragmede 2 hours ago
    There is that one that wants to put the solar reflectors into space so that the sun will shine on your solar panels at night. Then there's that data centers in space thing which does communication involved but the point would be that the Nvidia GPU super computer in space would do computing. Don't forget about mining. Land robots on the moon to build a mind that can extract resources like Helium-3.