3D printing helps NASA make headway on the Space Launch System
To complement the successful test of the printed injectors at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center tested their own printed injectors.
To complement the successful test of the printed injectors at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center tested their own printed injectors.
Rocket scientists get one injector closer to 3D printing spaceships with a successful test at a NASA facility.
NASA has been paying attention to the Maker community — so much so that they want to emulate it.
As this and the other 3D printing-oriented NASA projects mature, we’re going to start seeing some serious testing of actual printing on the moon.
SpiderFab is NASA’s hopeful path to reduced costs and the incredibly realistic capacity of building spacey things like station components, satellites, modules, and eventually entire spacecrafts IN space.
The next rover is being designed as we speak. When we do land the first rover on Mars–or maybe first an asteroid–the astronauts will be driving a rover with 3D-printed parts.