News — Longest 3D Print

Milestone - Made In Space achieved a very important milestone: the longest 3D print yet made. How cool!!! By “longest”, I don’t mean the longest duration; you would not want a contest where everyone sits around waiting the longest. No, this is about length, and Made In Space 3D printed a structure no less than 37.7m long. Yes, that’s meters! Previously the longest 3D print I’d seen was a demonstration done by Stratasys to show off their “Infinite Build Demonstrator”, a machine that 3D prints sideways and can theoretically print infinitely long objects if you keep feeding in thermoplastic pellets...