The Biggest 3D Printed Object, Launching into Space

This is the Biggest 3D Printed Object In The World, Launching Into Space.

At first, you might have thought of something plastic, made by a printer that looks like this. But there are 7 kinds of 3D printing techniques. Some of them, work on metal. And some of them don't even look like a printer.

But almost all of them, are expensive.

This one part of the 3D printed object, looks like a can. And to make a can with 3D printing, could cost a thousand times more than a traditionally made can. So it only makes sense to use 3D printing for prototypes, or for objects you won't mass produce. Like this $12 million dollar rocket

that almost reached orbit. So

Sources:

[https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/amrg/about/the7categoriesofadditivemanufacturing/](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/amrg/about/the7categoriesofadditivemanufacturing/)

[https://www.therobotreport.com/relativity-space-launches-first-3d-printed-rocket/#:~:text=Rocket bodies are currently expensive,than with current manufacturing methods](https://www.therobotreport.com/relativity-space-launches-first-3d-printed-rocket/#:~:text=Rocket%20bodies%20are%20currently%20expensive,than%20with%20current%20manufacturing%20methods).

[https://www.space.com/relativity-space-terran-1-test-launch-failure](https://www.space.com/relativity-space-terran-1-test-launch-failure?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew)