Eleven Metal 3D Printed Parts to Land on Mars this February

When the Perseverance rover lands on the Red Planet on February 18th, 2021, it would have successfully carried 11 metal 3D printed parts. Curiosity, Perseverance’s predecessor, became the first mission to take 3D printed parts to Mars when it landed in 2012 with a 3D printed ceramic part inside the rover’s ovenlike Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. Since then, NASA continued to test 3D printing for use in spacecraft to make sure the reliability of the parts is well understood.
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