A novel three D printer that uses resin and light to create near perfect ceramic pieces in microgravity.

This machine, created by Maiden space, is the beginning of what's being called space enabled Manufacturing.

Made in space, is one of the driving forces in space manufacturing, and they're ceramic Printer is just the first in a line of three trailblazing facilities they planned the launch to the ISS.

One of the core values of maiden space is to enable humans live and work in the space environment, and that has a multitude of different angles.

And one of those core premises is actually being able to develop products in the space environment to actually bring back down here to Earth to bring value.

The first one is gonna be manufacturing ceramics on orbit.

The second will be focused more on crystals, and the third will be actually casting super alloys.

Metallics.

This'll isn't made in space is first time printing in microgravity.

In 2014 astronauts were able to three d print the very first object in space, which lead to establishing a permanent printing facility on the ISS s called the additive manufacturing facility, which has now printed more than 200 items for astronauts on board.

The era of waiting months for a wrench is now behind them.

So if the crew already has a printer, what's the big deal with these next generation printers?

The unique thing that we can do in spaces we can take gravity out of manufacturing equation, everything that we make on the ground, everything we do from a crossing thing perspective that all has a has a uniformed constraint, and that is one G gravity here on earth.

Items made in our manufacturing facilities can have defects in the material, even microscopic ones that could be caused by sedimentation or composition Grady INTs leading to shorter lifespans of the material.

Instead of printing for just astronaut use, the M.

I s team would like to take advantage of the weightless environment to create materials that are stronger and more efficient than the ones made on Earth.

The team plans to prove this with their first payload, the ceramic manufacturing module or CMM.

That machine is going to use sterile photography to be able to manufacture with some pre polymer ceramic resin.

The CMM will start by working on printing single piece Bliss six, which are bladed discs that are used in aircraft, jet engines and other integrated Roeder's.

Once printed, the pieces will be sent back to Earth to be heat treated to form the final product of a ceramic matrix Composites or C.

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S are immensely heat resistant and could perform hundreds of degrees hotter than the best super allies.

This makes them better than typical metal components like the ones used in aircraft engines.

High temperature, high pressure grade ceramics are something that is very coveted here on Earth.

Even minimal improvements to the materials, like resistance to high temperatures, can improve the fuel economy and efficiency.

So right now for the C.

M M made in space has two main objectives.

The first one is making sure the hardware works as we think it should.

In producing these items.

The second one is taking these items that we produce, bringing them back down to Earth, analyzing them and comparing them to the ones that we produce on Earth to see if the differences air there and what those differences are.

While they're working on that, the next to payloads will be gearing up to go.

The next payload that we're going to be flying is the Industrial Crystallization Facility, or CF I.

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Is actually going to show that microgravity actually allows for the formation of solution based crystals to grow much larger and actually be able to grow much more homogeneous than what you'd see here on Earth.

Thes crystals could be used to improve a variety of products, from high efficiency ultraviolet light production to terror hurts, wave sensors and then the final payload that we're going to be sending up.

It's actually very early next year called Super Alloy Casting Module, and this super alloy casting facility is taking a look at being able to heat, treat, re melt and solidify different materials on orbit, specifically high grade temperature alloys.

And that should result in actually reformulating the crystalline structure at its core level.

To be able to show why microgravity can help formalize and really make the inherent atomic structure.

Mork homogeneous.

So with the ceramics facility in place on the S and the printing innovations soon to follow.

The team has high hopes that these machines will radically change the three D printing industry, proving these unique printers can build superior items.

And space could also help man in spaces endeavor to build entire spacecrafts while in orbit.

After all, the company already has plans to build the world's first self building satellite known as Arkan.

Not one thes space enabled manufacturing concepts could forever change the way we look at how we live on Earth and how we could live in space.

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