July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... a long way in the past ten years. Not only have key technologies such as launch reusability and 3D printing in space been demonstrated successfully, the nature of space finance has also evolved significantly. Ten years ago...
29 January 2016
3D Printing Our Future in Space and on Earth
... and his team have already come quite close to realising this goal with some mind blowing 3D printing results. What’s even more interesting is that this technology is not only made for space, but can...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
.... Tests are at an early stage, and it’s possible they’ll lead to exciting results. However, it also seems possible that 3D printing will join the annals of excessively technical solutions, inadequate to meet a fundamental human need for food that...
June 2015
The book of flight
...nightmare. Imagine if you have 200 airplanes, and you have to print out 100 pages before each flight. If those airplanes do 4.... All of the information that would have been printed out, is transferred digitally through the ground server application...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
.... I was fortunate to have a background as a graphic artist and be a ‘dab hand’ at Photoshop. I managed to connect with a large-format printing company in Canberra that could do what I wanted, but obviously it was not going to happen for free. There...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... the cost of goods transported into space. Today, 3D printed textiles are evolving and have been embraced by space engineers ...steel when inflated on-orbit. This flexible, strong metallic 3D-printed ‘chainmail’ fabric reflects heat and light on one ...
