{"id":791,"date":"2015-08-18T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2015-08-18T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:43:27","slug":"engineering-students-launch-experimental-3-d-printer-on-nasa-rocket-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/08\/18\/engineering-students-launch-experimental-3-d-printer-on-nasa-rocket-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering students launch experimental 3-D printer on NASA rocket ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would a 3-D printer work in the microgravity of suborbital space after surviving a jarring ride 100 miles above the earth? A group of Virginia Tech College of Engineering students answered that after a launch at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility.\u00a0 The use of a 3-D printer in space is not new. A 3-D printer is on the International Space Station. But this is the first time such a printer was used on an unmanned rocket during flight, said Virginia Tech RockSat-X team leader Sebastian Welsh of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and senior in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.vt.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">department of computer science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.vt.edu\/news\/virginia-tech-engineering-students-launch-experimental-3-d-printer-nasa-rocket-ship\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_792\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 210px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/teamuse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-792 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/teamuse.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Tech\u2019s RockSat-X team includes (left to right) Seth Austin, Sebastian Welsh, and John Mulvaney, all of the College of Engineering. \" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Virginia Tech\u2019s RockSat-X team includes (left to right) Seth Austin, Sebastian Welsh, and John Mulvaney, all of the College of Engineering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would a 3-D printer work in the microgravity of suborbital space after surviving a jarring ride 100 miles above the earth? A group of Virginia Tech College of Engineering students answered that after a launch at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility.\u00a0 The use of a 3-D printer in space is not new. A 3-D printer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-all-student-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}