Nasa awards $20m contract to Made In Space to develop in-space manufacturing

Posted on 12 May 2016 by Aiden Burgess

Silicon Valley-based company, Made in Space, has a chance to live up to its company name after being selected by NASA to lead the next phase in the ongoing development of in-space manufacturing.

Made in Space was awarded a two-year, $20m contract from NASA in November and the company is now working with Northrop Grumman and Oceaneering Space Systems on the NASA project ‘Archinaut’. Archinaut is an ambitious effort to build a robotic arm equipped with a 3D printer which will be installed in an external space station pod.…

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