While America Makes and NASA are launching a design contest to see habitats 3D printed in space, Stratasys and MakerBot are hoping to aid the space race for low-cost satellites with the CubeSat Challenge on GrabCAD. The 3D printing leader has turned to the 2 million member 3D modeling site, and Stratasys subsidiary, to ask the GrabCAD community to put a new spin on CubeSats for a chance to win cash prizes, MakerBot Replicators, and Stratasys Direct Manufacturing services.
With its standard 10cmX10cmX10cm cubic (known as 1U) geometry and maximum weight of 1.33 kg, the invention of the CubeSat in 1999 has seen a drop in cost and increase in accessibility for space research. …
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