Accelerating Life Off-Planet — gravityLab provides programmable gravity for research and manufacturing in space.

Seattle, WA
Joined June 2022
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This is simply the case for @gravitylab. It’s been a journey. I don’t know its outcome, which is hard to admit. But I hope a needle got moved on a worthy problem. I’m anthropocentric. I just had a conversation with someone whom I thought was an inspiration, but turned away from the vision of human value. Sorry there are limiting business cases for being human. But I’m still in that fight, personally. We do this stuff to preserve life and its richness. I want our art to never die. Or at least not before it’s time.
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Replying to @astrojockey
Yes we are. And we haven’t shoved it to the back of our roadmap (not a criticism of the awesome companies in this space, simply that we’ve committed for better or worse @gravityLabSpace to this being the core and immediate problem to tackle from mission 1. It’s wonderful to see others in this space, and I think we’ll see spin gravity at some scale happen in the next handful of years.
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Fun podcast to do, thanks to Evona! TL;DR: read a lot. Surround yourself with amazing people. Fall in love with the things you spend time on. Don’t be afraid to fail. youtu.be/x6N2xTCAHks?si=Gnji…
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@GrantBonin on @gravityLabSpace! Talking not just how to explore and live in space, but how we can ✨thrive✨ 💪
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Grant Bonin, Co-Founder & CEO of @gravityLabSpace, will give a plenary talk at the 2024 International Mars Society Convention in August. His Seattle-based company specializes in artificial gravity satellites for research and manufacturing in low Earth orbit. #mars2024 #science
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DFL is a world-class test facility. I’ve had the privilege of doing environmental test campaigns of satellites spanning three orders of magnitude in size there. Good luck recreating this capability if it goes away… In an age where low-cost big satellites might finally become cost-effective, the death of DFL is a move in a fool-hearty direction @csa_asc change.org/p/save-the-david-…
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Replying to @ID_AA_Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack we should talk about @gravityLabSpace :) this is essentially what we are doing but for extremely low-cost – at Washington, USA
Spin gravity for space has been talked about since before I was born, but still hasn’t been demonstrated. @SpaceX should Just Do It with a Dragon capsule, counterweight, and cable.
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I wish that this far into the space age we had better data on how humans function at gravity levels >µG and <1G. I've been beating that drum for coming up on 20yrs now. Glad to see companies like @vast and @GraviticsInc and @gravityLabSpace trying to create AG orbital platforms.
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Replying to @KenKirtland17
Way more cost effective to do this with @gravityLabSpace
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Here for this content. @gravityLabSpace advisor @DrMarieMtx presenting at #ASGSR2023
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Very cool work being done by Kevin Crosby at Carthage on propellant gauging in space. @gravityLabSpace was fortunate enough to help with a prior STTR, and hoping to see this tech make orbit soon #ASGSR2023
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Goooood evening Logan! #smallsat2023 – at Logan, UT
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tomorrow on the show we've got @grantbonin joining us to talk about @gravityLabSpace! thu 1pm pdt / 4pm edt / 20:00 utc youtube.com/watch?v=5-QbE6dT…
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We need gravity to live healthily. But how much? – at Seattle, WA
A new study shows that astronauts who spend over 6 months in space suffer brain swelling—and it can take as long as 3 years on Earth to recover ti.me/3N0YoDE
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TODAY: If you've got questions about our latest #research opportunity focusing on #technology advancement & #appliedresearch, there's still time to register for our 2:00pm ET webinar. Join us as experts will be on hand to answer your questions! Register: bit.ly/3mvMsAe
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Great visualization and explainer via @gretchenreynold and @wneff, however "despite every available precaution and protection" overlooks that working and living in some amount of engineered artificial gravity can likely eliminate most of these issues. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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