空间中的第二台3D打印机是目前在途中to the International Space Station aboard the Atlas V rocket, allowing制作太空首先要实现另一个，这次是使用太空中的第一台商业3D打印机。感兴趣的各方可以开始placing ordersfor the Lowes-branded Additive Manufacturing Facility, but they’ll have to wait in line behind at least twenty others. Among them isMajestic.com，谁将以空间中的第一个3D打印广告活动的方式领导队列。
总部位于英国的搜索引擎Majestic.com是一款网络轨道，可解释用于营销，新闻和分析的网络数据。为了展示其Web工具的功能，他们开发了Internet的3D数据可视化，一旦安装AMF，它将在ISS上打印3D。这篇文章名为“雄伟的景观”，是由雄伟的数学分数根据其影响力，权威和可信赖性的每个链接的分配而创建的。然后将这些数据转换为设计师和艺术家Brendan Dawes的3D可打印雕塑。
Once the AMF is installed in the next three days, the printer can begin fulfilling its orders 250 miles above Earth. Not only has the Internet never been recreated in physical form, according to Majestic, but it certainly hasn’t been 3D printed aboard the ISS before. The print job will represent one of the first business transactions to occur in space.
Majestic’s Dixon Jones says of the project, “Space has a huge symbolic significance for our team at Majestic. Like the Internet, space is vast – possibly infinite. Like the Internet, we are able to see and experience some of space, but much of it awaits to be discovered. This #MajesticInSpace project puts into perspective, not just the huge potential for Majestic to help businesses understand how to be more successful online, but sets in motion that idea that space is far from the final frontier of human and business potential.”
Though it isn’t being billed as such, this is also the first 3D printed advertisement in space, given the publicity given to the Majestic Landscape. Because Made In Space is also involved in the Archinaut project to 3D print large-scale structures in space, I wonder if, in addition to solar arrays and satellites, they’ll also be 3D printing billboards.
