Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026
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That's good for those of us who want to build real estate and have a reason to expand our footprint in orbit.
And then there's protein formulation and crystallization where maybe we get the data from space and then we help use that to inform Earth-based processes.
Made in space.
Made in space.
There is a great company called Made in Space.
They got acquired a couple years ago.
They're doing 3D printing, like what you were asking about.
And yeah, this is what we want to do with our first version of Tesserae, which is what we call the self-assembling ball.
Mm-hmm.
We want it to be an orbital biolab with shelves and shelves and shelves of experiments that are good for life on Earth.
And my mission is to design it in a way that my graduate students at MIT could go and do their own experiments.
As citizen scientists, well-trained, but not astronauts in their whole career.
And that, I think we're just at the cusp where the cost to get to space is getting low enough where that could be feasible in the next decade.
It's about $1,500.
Forgive me, I'm going to switch units on you.
It's $1,500 a kilogram.
I know, I'm a scientist.
About $1,500 a kilogram today.
With Starship coming online, and these are not Elon's numbers, this is like independent analysis, it's expected to be $200 a kilogram.
Which is like FedEx.
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