The first metal 3D printer designed for space will soon be tested on the International Space Station (ISS). A collaboration with French metal 3D printer manufacturer AddUp, Airbus, Cranfield ...

If the 3D printer yields the desired results, the technology could prove critical to Mars and lunar exploration, while contributing to ESA’s vision for a circular space economy.

The first metal 3D printer aboard the International Space Station successfully dribbled out a molten “S curve” last Thursday, in what the European Space Agency (ESA) is calling a “giant leap ...

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 ...

Oct. 5, 2020 — Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results ...

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.

Now anyone can learn different methods of 3D metal printing by just using their phone, and these professors mean anybody. "One area where 3D printing is finding a space is more in the artistic scene.