{"id":27778,"date":"2016-07-12T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/coming-soon-3d-printing-satellites-in-outer-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:03:11","slug":"coming-soon-3d-printing-satellites-in-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/coming-soon-3d-printing-satellites-in-outer-space","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: 3D printing satellites in outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coming-soon-3d-printing-satellites-in-outer-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3D printing satellites in outer space might sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but that\u2019s exactly where the aerospace industry\u2019s biggest players are heading.<\/p>\n<p>More than just a cool gimmick, 3D printing could help save companies money when launching satellites into space by building parts of them there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think of challenges in getting a satellite into orbit, if you think of major antennas, the fold out antennas we have, the ability to print something in space and deploy it from space is really interesting,\u201d Andy Anderson, deputy chief technology officer at Airbus, told CNBC in an interview at the Farnborough air show on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/07\/12\/coming-soon-3d-printing-satellites-in-outer-space.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/07\/12\/coming-soon-3d-printing-satel...space.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing satellites in outer space might sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but that\u2019s exactly where the aerospace industry\u2019s biggest players are heading. More than just a cool gimmick, 3D printing could help save companies money when launching satellites into space by building parts of them there. \u201cIf you think of challenges in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61214,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/61214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}