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NASA Lets You 3D Print Your Own Mars Perseverance Rover
After a successful launch on July 30, NASA‘s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect…
Relativity Secures a New Launch Site in California for 3D Printed Rockets
A new launch site facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California will be Relativity Space‘s latest adoption to its growing portfolio of infrastructure partnerships. With this new addition,…
Relativity Space Preparing for Next Year’s Rocket Launch with New VP and Verified 3D Printing Tech
In the last few years, there has been excitement for the new race to the moon. But as deadlines for rocket launches and crewed missions get closer, space companies begin…
Stratodyne: New Space Company Wants to 3D Print Stratospheric Satellites and CubeSats
With a growing directory of space companies gaining momentum, research and development in rocket science, aerospace engineering, and space travel are at an all-time high. After a continuous decrease in…
MT Aerospace to 3D Print Large Metal Structures with BeAM Tech DED
Directed energy deposition (DED) technology is increasingly demonstrating the potential for use in 3D printing large-scale metal parts, particularly for the aerospace sector. Now, Germany’s MT Aerospace wants to further…
NASA and Made In Space Talk About 3D Printing Recycled Material in Orbit
With deep space exploration moving forward, NASA is using the International Space Station (ISS) to conduct cutting edge research and technological developments to help prepare astronauts as they take the…
3DPOD Episode 10: 3D Printing in Space
Space exploration and the new commercial space race is a very exciting area for 3D printing. In this episode of the 3DPod Max and myself discuss the opportunities for 3D…
Interview with Mark Wrigley of Elektric-Works
Inspired by the Apollo moon landings, Mark Wrigley embarked on a career in physics in the early 1970s. In 2011 he set up his own company; Elektric-Works which explores the way disruptive technology and making can empower individuals and start ups.
Interview with Patrik Ohldin of Open Source Metal 3D Printing Company Freemelt
I’ve known Patrik Ohldin for a long time as a supremely knowledgeable metal printing guy. He’s been working in metal 3D printing for over 14 years, 12 of those as…
Oerlikon and RUAG Ink Space Deal while Additive Industries and LPW do the same
Mayday, Farnborough, we’re running out of champagne. If you’re slowly but surely getting the impression that a lot of deals are being signed at the Farnborough Airshow, you would be…
ETH Zurich Researchers Develop 4D Printed Load-Bearing Polymer Structures
There are numerous issues involved with transporting things into space, one being that some of them are just too big and bulky. One solution is to make those items small…
Zero 2 Infinity Gets Ready to Blast Off with 3D Printed Rocket Engine
3D printing and other advanced technologies are making many things more accessible, and one of those is outer space. Companies such as Zero 2 Infinity are offering average people the opportunity…
Partially 3D Printed Rocket Lab Electron Vehicle Successfully Reaches Orbit and Deploys Payloads
For as long as humans have been self aware, they have been pondering the future. The visions generally seem to run along one of two tracks. The first is a…
3D Printing News Briefs: September 6, 2017
We’ve got a lot of business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by new 3D beta software, 3D printing materials work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a…
Middle School Students Design and 3D Print Container to Hold EIS Academy Experiments During Suborbital Rocket Launch
Classroom experiments are usually pretty interesting, and even fun…unless you’re dissecting a rat in biology class, of course (that was not a fun day for me, or the rat). A…
Exploring Psyche: Arizona State University 3D Prints a Distant Asteroid
Do you remember where you were when Pluto was stripped of its planet status? I…don’t, but I do remember feeling shocked, hurt, and betrayed on behalf of the icy little…
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Developing Experiment to 3D Print Living Tissue on the International Space Station
Space, the final frontier…and another venue, with a great view, for 3D printing! It’s been over two years since the first functioning 3D printed object was fabricated in space, and…
How a NASA Supplier & Thermoplastic Firm’s Material Allow 3D Printing in Space
Braskem, one of the largest thermoplastic resin producers in the Americas, entered into a strategic partnership with official NASA supplier Made In Space to develop a material called “I’m Green…
3D Printable Alpha Vector Ship from No Man’s Sky Video Game on MyMiniFactory is the Best of Both Worlds
With all the craziness going on in the world today, it is easy to forget the things that really matter. Small acts of kindness, reaching out to loved ones and…
New Worlds Seeks Presentations for the Space Settlement Symposium 2016
Space may be the final frontier, but it is swiftly opening up with the advent 3D printed rockets, satellites and other aerospace systems. We’ve previously reported on putting a 3D…
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Seeks Submissions for Visionary Concepts
On Sunday, I attended Star Trek: Mission New York at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. One of the many celebratory events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the seminal science fiction…
Lunar 3D Printing as Pitstop to Life on Mars
According to the head of the European Space Agency, it will be at least 15 years before we can expect humans aboard a flight to Mars. The US space agency NASA is…
3D Printed Claw Device Takes Inspiration from Pacific Sea Urchins
As with most politically aware, socially conscious citizens of the world, you have probably caught yourself wondering: “I know that sea urchins are nice and all…but what have they done…
Atlas V Rocket Successfully Launches with Multiple Components 3D Printed by Stratasys
3D printed parts have been finding themselves in rockets and spacecraft for a few years now, but typically it was a single, experimental part, usually printed in metal. However, using…
