Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos plans to design a space station section for additive manufacturing, according to a presentation given by Yuri Urlichich, the company’s first deputy director general, on Thursday at the “Additive Technologies.

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Expanding the Horizons” forum. According to the presentation, additive printing technology, also known as 3D-printing, will make possible creation of objects of any complexity in zero gravity. “To design a manufacturing section of a space station,” the presentation reads. The company also plans to create standards for 3D-printing at the orbit as well as augment existing printing technologies. The presentation also mentions a possible use of lunar soil in printing. 3D printing is a process of creating objects by spreading an extremely fine layer of powder then sintering it with the laser then adding another layer of powder on top of a sintered layer and so on until the object […]

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