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PHARMA MICROGRAVITY · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-05-14

Varda Space Industries

Active Pharma Microgravity Private HQ: El Segundo, California

Microgravity-enabled life-sciences company operating W-Series free-flying orbital platforms that process pharmaceutical active ingredients and materials in orbit and return product to Earth. Also serves as a hypersonic testbed for reentry and orbital flight testing.

37.1
ARI Composite
Very High Risk
#16 of 17
Peer Rank
Infrastructure cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

37.1
ARI composite · Very High Risk
Peer rank#16 of 17
Peer groupInfrastructure
Data coverage82%
Tracked gov contracts$14.1M across 2 awards

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorPharma Microgravity
Rank within sector#16 of 17
Tracked peers17

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameVarda Space Industries, Inc.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersEl Segundo, California
CountryUS
AliasesVarda, Varda Space, Varda Space Industries
Key programsW-Series (W-1, W-2, W-3, W-4, W-5, W-6)
Gov customersDoD, Air Force, NASA
IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Corporate homepage (El Segundo, CA HQ; 2026 copyright) documents Varda's microgravity-enabled life-sciences platform and W-Series reentry missions through W-6, establishing operator status in the phar

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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