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Mouser Electronics and Grant Imahara Announce Winners of ISS Design Challenge
Just a few months ago, we told you about the 2016 International Space Station Design Challenge, brought to you by electronics distribution company Mouser Electronics and renowned American engineer Grant…
Enterprise In Space and Kepler Space Institute Launch Print The Future Competition
While Elon Musk has recently been making headlines for his plan to get the human race to Mars, a group of pioneering space exploration and 3D printing entities have recently…
Mouser Electronics and Grant Imahara Collaborate to Launch ISS Design Challenge
As humanity’s race to explore outer space continues on its imminent path, the importance of 3D design and 3D printing for these space-based applications becomes more and more apparent. Take…
Winners of Future Engineers 3D Printing Star Trek Replicator Challenge Announced
There are some things that never get old, and Star Trek seems to be one of them. The original series aired back in the 1960s, but multiple spinoffs, a reboot,…
Student Calls ISS to Discuss His Design After Astronauts 3D Print It in Space
We tend to dismiss distances these days as we can easily make phone calls halfway around the world and the internet has put down roots nearly everywhere. There is, however,…
A New Wrench is Thrown into the 3D Printing Plan at the ISS: Check Out This Cool Tool from the AMF
The story of the human race and our fascination with and ensuing exploration of outer space thus far is of course, nothing short of amazing; in fact, just the thought…
Made In Space Plans to 3D Print ‘Steampunk’ Ships From Asteroid Material
It’s well nigh impossible to discuss 3D printing technology in outer space without mentioning the California-based 3D printing firm Made In Space. The organization has essentially become the right hand…
Autodesk Memento Graduates from Beta Phase with Very Promising Start & New Name–ReMake
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on Autodesk Memento, previously in its beta phase but already playing an integral role in some very important projects, from allowing Dr. Louise…
It’s 2050: What’s for Dinner on Mars? Help Decide & Enter Your 3D Model in the Star Trek Replicator Challenge!
How many of you remember whiling away luxurious moments in front of the television during early evenings or on weekends, watching re-runs of Star Trek? What an incredible escape, traveling…
NASA and the ASME Challenge Students to ‘Think Outside the Box’ and 3D Design for Outer Space
It seems like there is no shortage of 3D design challenges and competitions these days. For a new technology that is growing in popularity, challenges seem like an excellent way for…
UK Company Majestic is About to 3D Print the Internet — From Space
If you think about it, the Internet is sort of like outer space. It’s seemingly endless, full of dark matter, and impossible to fully see or know. You’d also think…
New 3D Printer Heads to the ISS Today; Self-Sustainability in Space Continues to Expand
The challenges for space travel are pretty simple to begin with, in concept. We must find a powerful method to shoot us there, up and out into orbit, and we…
NASA and Made In Space are Building a Multi-Armed 3D Printing Space Robot Named Archinaut
California’s space technology company Made In Space, currently preparing their second zero gravity 3D printer called the Additive Manufacturing Facility for the International Space Station, will be playing a key…
Artist Eyal Gever and Made In Space to Send 3D Printed Laughter into Orbit
Have you ever wondered what laughter might look like? You may immediately think of an image of a person laughing, but what would laughter itself look like, if it could…
ESA Taps BEEVERYCREATIVE to Help Develop a 3D Printing Breadboard for the ISS
In the past few years 3D printing has slowly but surely begun transforming the aerospace industry. It started simply enough, with prototyping and testing, and then developed into the development…
NSS Enterprise: 3D Printed Satellite Engineered by Made In Space & EIS Will Carry Student Experiments
For most of us, it’s incomprehensible how a project like getting to space even begins–from designing and making the actual ship, to manpower, to overall dynamics and intricate planning. And…
Archinaut: NASA Enlists Made In Space to Head Project for 3D Printing Large-Scale Structures in Space
3D printing is certainly responsible for bringing an enormous amount of cool new stuff to the world–and even allowing us to conceptualize, design, and make some unbelievable innovations from our…
Ready for Blast Off? SpaceX 3D Printed SuperDraco Thrusters Prove Themselves Further at Texas Rocket Facility
As most of us are aware by now, upon reading multitudes of headlines and watching a myriad of news clips, Elon Musk is a fan of 3D printing. Not only…
Lowe’s and Made In Space will Launch First Commercial 3D Printer into Space and First In-Store VR Design Tool
The first permanent 3D printing facility on the International Space Station (ISS) is being made possible thanks to a partnership between Lowe’s Innovation Labs and Made In Space, the creators…
Inside the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo Santa Clara: Part One
Traveling to 3D printing conventions always starts out as a stress-filled endeavor for me. There is always too much to see, too much to learn and too many people to…
Today at Inside 3D Printing: Made In Space Keynote Examines AM Among the Stars
Following my morning cup(s) of coffee, I had the pleasure of starting my day out by walking into the keynote presentation given by Andrew Rush, president of Made In Space,…
Made In Space & NanoRacks Sign Deal to Build & Deploy 3D Printed Satellites In Orbit
Made In Space and NanoRacks have been making news lately with the announcement of partnerships to change the way objects are imagined and built off the planet, and now the…
Made In Space Breakthrough Allows 3D Printing in the Vacuum of Space, Away from ISS
In November of 2014, Made in Space made history when astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) unpacked the world’s first piece of manufacturing equipment designed to operate in space….
SpaceVR’s Virtual Reality Space Experience To Be Enabled By In-space 3D Printed Camera Casing
It’s an interesting bit of information. Of the 108 billion people who’ve ever lived, only 536 have ever seen the the Earth from space in person and in real-time. As…