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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…
Comet Runner: Will 3D Printing Make Comet Hopping a Reality?
Projects like the 3D Printing in Zero-G Technology Demonstration from NASA on the International Space Station and a London architecture firm’s work with the European Space Agency to consider methods…
Andrey Rudenko Reveals Plan to 3D Print Bases on the Moon and Buildings in Earth’s Deserts
Perhaps you are getting tired of hearing about the 3D printing of buildings by now. After all, 3D printed construction has been in the news quite a bit over the…
Space Age Technology… in Space: 3D Print Challenge by NASA
There are few technologies that are currently revolutionizing human capabilities as much as those offered through 3D printing. What if you wanted to make that into something even more cutting…
Using 3D Printing to Colonize Animals in Space: Nonhuman Autonomous Space Agency Outlines Concept
We humans just aren’t quite ready for living in and colonizing space yet. It’s a source of frustration for many eager space enthusiasts, but unfortunately there are just a few…
Build Giant Objects in Space With the Help of 3D Printing — Introducing The Trusselator
The Trusselator is aimed at creating, through the use of in-space additive manufacturing, a series of high-performance trusses to handle large solar arrays and antennas, and NASA says Tethers Unlimited…
