European-Made 3D Printer Will Be the First to Print Metal in Space

A 3D printer developed by Airbus under a European Space Agency contract will be the first to print metal components aboard the International Space Station. Aboard the first Northrop Grumman Cygnus mission to be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 is a 180-kilogram 3D metal printer. The Cygnus spacecraft, which carried the name of late […]
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Published by European Spaceflight on 02/03/2024

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-20 (S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson)