{"id":93530,"date":"2019-07-13T00:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T07:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/does-the-world-need-a-3d-printed-rocket"},"modified":"2019-07-13T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T07:02:28","slug":"does-the-world-need-a-3d-printed-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/does-the-world-need-a-3d-printed-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Does the world need a 3D-printed rocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-the-world-need-a-3d-printed-rocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all a way of saying that behind every successful launch is a tremendous amount of labor and a vast network of suppliers working in concert to assemble each vehicle. By streamlining the supply chain, Relativity hopes to sharply cut production time.<\/p>\n<p>But this goal of printing Terran 1\u2019s more than 100-foot-tall (30-meter) exterior and fuel tank comes with an additional challenge: creating printers that can accomplish the task. \u201cBuilding a rocket company is hard, building a 3D-printing company is hard, and building both together at the same time is borderline nuts,\u201d says Ellis, Relativity\u2019s CEO. \u201cBut while it\u2019s the hardest part of the job, it is also the secret sauce that will make Relativity a world-changing company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a way to go before doing any world changing, though. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to fly a rocket unless we get these metal 3D-printing technologies developed,\u201d Ellis admits. \u201cSo that provides quite a bit of existential kick in the butt to figure it out, because this is the only way we \u2019 re going to actually make it to our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s all a way of saying that behind every successful launch is a tremendous amount of labor and a vast network of suppliers working in concert to assemble each vehicle. By streamlining the supply chain, Relativity hopes to sharply cut production time. But this goal of printing Terran 1\u2019s more than 100-foot-tall (30-meter) exterior and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93530","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}