{"id":203147,"date":"2013-06-04T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"81fde8cbdf1970d0806f3ec261c6ee69"},"modified":"2013-06-04T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:35:00","slug":"3d-printed-toolbox-for-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=203147","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed toolbox for Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/06\/3d-printed_toolbox_for_columbus\/12865630-1-eng-GB\/3D-printed_toolbox_for_Columbus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis purpose-designed 3D-printed toolbox is being launched to the ISS on ESA\u2019s latest ATV resupply spacecraft.&nbsp;The strong, lightweight multitray toolbox was printed in ULTEM 9085 thermoplastic by Thales Alenia Space in Turin through an ESA contract.&nbsp;The toolbox is designed to store tools for maintaining Europe\u2019s Columbus research module.&nbsp;The new toolbox includes little clips to hold the tools in place, just like toolboxes you can buy at a hardware store, instead of the previous Velcro inserts that may lose their stickiness over time.&nbsp;At the same time, the toolbox exterior still has Velcro covering, so astronauts can leave it in place while they work without it drifting away.&nbsp;If any part of the toolbox breaks then the ground has only to reprint and fly up the tray in question.&nbsp;Following this pilot project, future long-duration missions could carry their own 3D printers in space to print out failed parts immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/06\/3d-printed_toolbox_for_columbus\/12865630-1-eng-GB\/3D-printed_toolbox_for_Columbus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis purpose-designed 3D-printed toolbox is being launched to the ISS on ESA\u2019s latest ATV resupply spacecraft.&nbsp;The strong, lightweight multitray toolbox was printed in ULTEM 9085 thermoplastic by Thales Alenia Space in Turin through an ESA contract.&nbsp;The toolbox is designed to store tools for maintaining Europe\u2019s Columbus research module.&nbsp;The new toolbox includes little clips to hold the tools in place, just like toolboxes you can buy at a hardware store, instead of the previous Velcro inserts that may lose their stickiness over time.&nbsp;At the same time, the toolbox exterior still has Velcro covering, so astronauts can leave it in place while they work without it drifting away.&nbsp;If any part of the toolbox breaks then the ground has only to reprint and fly up the tray in question.&nbsp;Following this pilot project, future long-duration missions could carry their own 3D printers in space to print out failed parts immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}