Redwire Regolith Manufacturing Technology Wins Popular Science 2021 Best of What’s New Award
02 12월 2021 - 6:30AM
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Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced
today that its Redwire Regolith Print (RRP) has been awarded a 2021
Popular Science Best of What’s New Award in the Aerospace category.
Popular Science’s Best of What’s New Awards winners are
technologies or products that represent a significant step forward
in one of ten categories.
RRP, which launched to the International Space Station on a
commercial resupply mission on August 10, 2021, is a technology
demonstration mission developed in partnership with NASA’s Marshall
Space Flight Center. The mission demonstrated core components of
the fused deposition modeling printing process with regolith
feedstock material using Redwire’s Additive Manufacturing Facility
currently aboard the ISS. This marks the first time lunar regolith
simulant was used for three-dimensional (3D) printing in space.
"It's an incredible honor for our technology to be recognized by
Popular Science as one of the most cutting-edge innovations
developed this year," said Michael Snyder, Chief Technology Officer
of Redwire. "Our mission is focused on accelerating humanity's
expansion into space, and RRP and other capabilities are critical
to ensuring sustainable exploration and establishing a permanent
human presence on the surface of the Moon and beyond."
The RRP mission supports NASA’s efforts to develop critical in
situ resource utilization capabilities for the Artemis program and
generates data to support the evaluation of the feasibility of
using resources available on the Moon as the raw materials for on
demand construction of housing and other structures. RRP technology
is ultimately intended to manufacture infrastructure and mission
hardware on the lunar surface using local materials, thus reducing
launch mass for future Artemis missions. Construction applications
may include landing pads, foundations, roads, habitats and habitat
furnishings.
"The Best of What's New Awards celebrates the year’s greatest
feats of human ingenuity—the steps towards safer, healthier,
more-sustainable and happier days ahead," said Popular Science
Editor-in-Chief Corinne Iozzio. "Despite the supply chain
challenges making headlines in 2021, breakthroughs across all our
categories have helped us glimpse a future brimming with
possibilities. This collection, which includes everything from an
artificial intelligence mapping more-efficient airline routes to
mountain-bike shocks that adjust themselves on the fly, is full of
items we’re proud to dub the Best of What's New."
For the mission, Redwire launched three custom-designed 3D
printing heads and three print bed surfaces to support RRP’s
on-orbit operations. All aspects of performing print operations
with regolith simulant were matured through spaceflight testing
using RRP. Printed samples have been returned to Earth and are
undergoing scientific analysis.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a leader space infrastructure
for the next generation space economy, with valuable IP for solar
power generation and in-space 3D printing and manufacturing. With
decades of flight heritage combined with the agile and innovative
culture of a commercial space platform, Redwire is uniquely
positioned to assist its customers in solving the complex
challenges of future space missions. For more information, please
visit www.redwirespace.com.
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