A researcher at a Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 university has created technology which will pave the way for #orbital 🌌 factories which can #3Dprint components on demand in #ZeroGravityhttps://www.scotsman.com/news/the-scottish-academic-who-travels-on-vomit-comet-shuttle-to-create-a-3d-printing-factory-in-space-4941419

Embedded #3Dprinting can "solve the challenge of #gravity-induced deformation" of printed structures https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-55972-1

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If the #cost of launching and operating a #SpaceStation drops 📉 sufficiently, it will become feasible to conduct a number of industrial processes in #orbit. We are not talking about specific experiments here, but of #serial production processes conducted at scale. Some specialized industrial processes can be done more efficiently in space 🌌, because of the absence of #gravity, particularly some #biotech applications with tangible applications on Earth https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/how-starlab-space-looks-to-switzerland-for-the-next-generation-of-space-stations

"From a #scientific perspective, we have lots of data at one g, where we have billions of data points of how the human body works in this environment. And we have a decent amount of data points at zero g based largely from the #ISS experience. But we have nothing in between one and zero." There would also be other benefits to having a modest amount of #gravity, he said. "It would be nice, sometimes, to be able to pour yourself a cup of #coffee ☕ " https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/former-astronaut-says-its-extremely-important-to-study-artificial-gravity

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