Probably some, but it is going to be a very powerful tool.
3 thoughts on “3-D Printing In Space”
You could be right, but I would love to see a manufacturing facility go up with a 3D printer, a laser cutter, some raw materials, and a couple of skilled operators. You could do a lot with that, and I think a lot of new ideas could come out, designing spacecraft that don’t have to survive launch.
…it will serve as one more tool in the toolbox, not a magic solution…
That’s all I’ve been saying but the reaction I get in some corners of the web is as if I’m attacking mother Theresa.
The authors assume ISS will be the primary manufacturing platform and no significant reduction in launch costs. Given those assumptions, of course it’s overhyped, like every other ISS application.
You could be right, but I would love to see a manufacturing facility go up with a 3D printer, a laser cutter, some raw materials, and a couple of skilled operators. You could do a lot with that, and I think a lot of new ideas could come out, designing spacecraft that don’t have to survive launch.
…it will serve as one more tool in the toolbox, not a magic solution…
That’s all I’ve been saying but the reaction I get in some corners of the web is as if I’m attacking mother Theresa.
The authors assume ISS will be the primary manufacturing platform and no significant reduction in launch costs. Given those assumptions, of course it’s overhyped, like every other ISS application.