Blackwing Space, a Nashville-based nanosatellite manufacturer, has been selected for the Space-Edge 2025-26 cohort, a national commercialization program helping innovators unlock opportunities in space-enabled advanced materials and manufacturing. Participating through Vanderbilt University, Blackwing will collaborate with research and industry partners to accelerate on-orbit experimentation in areas such as biomanufacturing, composites, and semiconductor materials. The company’s commercial nanosatellite platforms - designed and built in Tennessee - support rapid, affordable flight testing aligned with the emerging Space 3.0 era, where access is commercially driven and widely available. Space-Edge is developed in partnership with ASU, Rice, UCF, Vanderbilt, and the Space Foundation.