
Lots of people are making lots of things with 3D-printed parts but no one has ever made anything as large as an orbital rocket and tried to send it into space.įour years ago, News 6 and Erik von Ancken took a trip to the main Relativity Space factory in Los Angeles to see how they do it and why they do it. Think college students seeking an opportunity to send their own experiments into space.

The idea is to significantly decrease cost and increase access to spaceflight. The newcomer in the space industry will go for a huge first when the rocket lifts off: launching a rocket built almost entirely by a 3D printer. The next launch attempt will be Saturday, with a launch window open between 1 p.m.


In a Tweet, the agency said the scrub was due to exceeding launch commit criteria limits for propellant thermal conditions on stage two. – Relativity Space scrubbed its Wednesday launch of their 3D-printed rocket from Florida’s Space Coast.
