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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…
Stratasys Custom Creates New ESD PEKK 3D Printing Material for Use in Space
Until they purchased MakerBot, global 3D printing company Stratasys was primarily known for their industrial or professional grade 3D printers. While the company has been seemingly focusing a lot of…
Mars Habitat Designers RedWorks Will Test Earth-Based Manufacturing Products in 2016
Last May NASA launched their Mars 3D Printed Habitat Challenge that asked teams of designers, artists, engineers, rocket scientists and 3D printing technology experts from all over the world to…
European Space Agency Releases New 3D Images of Comet 67P
I remember the first time I saw a comet. People had been talking about the upcoming appearance of the comet Hale-Bopp for days; it was expected to be the brightest,…
SilverMoonshot is Out of This World: First 3D Printed Silver Shot Glass
I know a lot of people who collect shot glasses. Some of them pick up a new one every time they go on vacation, and end up with towers of…
New 3D Printed Whiskey Space Glass Allows Astronauts to Catch a Buzz
Is it time to get your whiskey buzz on in space? Not quite. But there are people at whiskey maker Ballantine’s and at the Open Space Agency working hard to see that if the…
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…
Smithsonian to Preserve and Make Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 NASA Space Suit 3D Printable
If you are my parents’ age and a citizen of the United States then it’s very likely that one of your most memorable national news stories was that of NASA’s Apollo…
You Can Now 3D Print the New Horizons Image of Pluto
It’s pretty rough being the celestial body known as Pluto, or as I like to call him, P-Dawg (okay, I don’t call Pluto that). Over the years, Pluto has been…
Pluto Flyby: Formlabs Engineer 3D Prints Replica of NASA’s New Horizons Space Probe
“Space: the final frontier.” For now at least, and likely for decades, if not centuries to come, this phrase may be better stated as “Pluto, the final frontier.” Pluto, which…
Helping the Skylon Spaceplane Reach Orbit with a 3D Printed Injector Mechanism
Most people associate commercialized space travel with SpaceX, but Elon Musk’s headline grabbing company is far from the only game in town, nor are they the first. Since 1989 the…
3D Printed Monolithic Ceramic Thruster for Rocket Engine Survives Hot Fire Testing
Space and advanced technology certainly go hand-in-hand, and additive manufacturing is certainly taking its place among the stars. Well–at least near-space. We’ve seen developments in AM techniques lead to prototypes…
3D Printed Human Artifacts are Being Sent to the Moon with Hopes of Surviving Billions of Years
It was July of 1969, and all of the world watched as humans landed on the moon. Soon thereafter, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot…
Pac-Man Celebrates 35th Birthday — is Launched into Space as 3D Printed Model
Who doesn’t have the classic video arcade music and linear-chomping action of Pac-Man ingrained in the ’80s-driven recesses of their minds? Even most young kids these days are well-familiar with…
SpaceX Launches First-ever Turkmenistan Satellite into Orbit, Bears 3D Printed Strut
The true generosity of Turkmenistan toward their people in terms of launching a new satellite system for ‘helping’ with entertainment and news is rather dubious, coming from a draconian isolationist government that…
AstroGro — The Self Sustainable 3D Printed Bio-farm For Space
Coming as a shock to no one, humans need to eat food. As NASA readies its (still decades-off) manned mission to Mars, one of the problems that need to be…
PrintTheBus Is Taking On the NASA CubeQuest Challenge with 3D Printed Satellite
Oh yeah, 3D printing really is rocket science. At least it is if you’re Nick Lamarre, a member of PrintTheBus, a group of space enthusiasts who are set on 3D…
Eurostar E3000 Satellite Project Features First Space-Qualified 3D Printed Aluminum Part
The Eurostar E3000 is a generic satellite model often used for commercial and military communications. Manufactured by Astrium, the system uses a bi-propellant chemical propulsion system and an optional plasma…
Japanese Breakthrough & 3D Printing Could Make Wireless Transmission of Solar Energy a Reality
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) say they were able to transmit 1.8 kilowatts of solar-generated power using microwaves sent to a receiver more than 180 feet from the…
ARTSAT 3D Printed Satellite Sends ‘Poetry’ Back from Space
The last pair of signals to reach Earth from the ARTSAT came from the lonely void some 4.7 million kilometers away in space during January. The first 3D printed satellite…
