In an experiment that sounds about as safe as bobbing for fries, ESA carried out the first-ever 3D metal printing in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Built with Airbus, the ...

How do you use a 3D printer to bend metal? One way would be to take it to a machine shop and offer to trade the owner your printer for some time in their shop. A smarter way is to do like [Jaba 3D]… ...

On Earth, current metal 3D printers are installed in a minimum 10-square-meter [108-sq-ft] laboratory. To create the prototype for the ISS, we had to shrink the printer to the size of a washing ...

Metal 3D printers on Earth are usually the size of a small room. However, engineers at Airbus had to shrink the space printer down to the size of a washing machine so it could fit in the tight ...

3D printers have even been sent to space, to be tested on the International Space Station (ISS). On several occasions, polymer-based printers were shipped to the station to see what they could do.

🤘 Space metal lands on Earth 🌍 The first ever metal part 3D-printed on orbit is here 🛰️🔧 Made on the @Space_Station in @esa ’s Metal 3D Printer - built by @AirbusSpace & installed ...

NASA astronauts (from left) Suni Williams, Pilot for Boeing's Crew Flight Test, and Jeanette Epps, Expedition 71 Flight Engineer, configure the Metal 3D printer inside the Columbus laboratory module.

“With the printing of the first metal 3D shape in space, ESA Exploration teams have achieved a significant milestone in establishing in-orbit manufacturing capabilities,” remarked Daniel ...

A team of University of Toronto researchers, led by Professor Yu Zou in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, is working to advance the field of metal additive manufacturing at the ...

Built by an Airbus-led team, the printer is about the size of a washing machine—small for metal 3D printers but big for space exploration—and uses high-powered lasers to liquefy metal alloys at ...

3D printing metal has been somewhat of a holy grail for the last decade in the hobby 3DP scene. We’ve seen a number of solutions, including using expensive filaments that incorporate metal in… ...