Space manufacturing to be tested in 2018

Posted on 3 Mar 2016 by Michael Cruickshank
An artists impression of an Archinaut facility building a dish-structure in orbit. Image courtesy of Made In Space.

A US 3D-printing company is receiving funds from Nasa to demonstrate revolutionary new space manufacturing technology.

‘Made In Space’ a company which made headlines in 2014 for sending the first 3D-printer to the International Space Station (ISS) is now working on a much more complex project. Armed with $20m of funding from Nasa, the company is working to develop robotic technology that can manufacture and assemble complex structures in orbit. The…

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