The company's 3D printers now churn out gun components.
The start-up was just about to ship its first batch of nanosatellites to their Kickstarter backers, but priorities changed within days, the company's chief technology officer Dmytro Khmara told Space.com in an email. Instead of going to the customers, the nanosatellites were taken apart and the components handed over to the military. "The first days of the war were mostly a shock," Khmara said."We quickly realized that it was not possible to continue business as usual.
The company donated nearly 17,000 satellite batteries to the Ukrainian military to power flashlights, radio transmitters and other equipment, said Khmara. Long-range communication modules with sensors that Lunar Research Service used in its stratospheric balloons replaced Chinese technology in military drones to reduce the risk of interception, he added. Sever of the staff members of Kyiv-based moon-tech start-up joined the defense forces.Kyiv-based moon tech start-up Lunar Research Service volunteers technology and skills to Ukraine defense forces.
"Our country's defense is the priority," said Khmera."Everybody should make every effort to overcome this injustice, and lead Ukraine to victory." The engineers work with Ukraine's army, which had stunned the world with their courage and resilience against the much more numerous better equipped aggressor (Russia's military outmatches Ukraine's by at least 1 to 5,
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