Space Foundry

Space Foundry is a San Jose, California-based technology company founded in 2019, pioneering plasma jet printing as a direct-write manufacturing technology for conductive electronic materials on planar and complex three-dimensional surfaces. Co-founded by Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman, inventor of plasma jet printing, and Dennis Nordlund, the company holds 8 granted US patents and has published 20+ peer-reviewed articles on the underlying science.

Space Foundry's patented plasma jet printing process aerosolizes metal-ion inks, introduces them into a reactive plasma environment, performs in-situ reduction of metal ions to zero-valent metal, and deposits conductive material — copper, silver, gold, graphene, or dielectrics — directly onto the target surface in a single dry step requiring no pre- or post-treatment. The technology supports conformal printing on complex 3D shapes, overhead and vertical surfaces, and flexible substrates, making it uniquely suited for aerospace structures, radomes, aircraft skins, UAV bodies, satellite antennas, and sensor arrays.

The company has delivered systems to 15+ global customer installations including NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratory, NextFlex, and universities in the US, Europe, Australia, India, and New Zealand. Space Foundry has demonstrated printing in microgravity via parabolic flight with NASA Armstrong and is actively developing in-space manufacturing capabilities for electronics fabrication in orbit.

The product portfolio spans desktop R&D systems, conformal printers for complex surfaces, roll-to-roll systems for flexible substrates, robotic arm integrations, and large industrial gantry systems, with equipment leasing and contract printing services available.