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NASA teams with students to test a 3d printed launch pad

BASTROP, Texas (NASA PR) — A group of understudies from schools and colleges across the United States – individuals from the Artemis Generation – tried a 3D printed dispatch and landing cushion to perceive how it holds up to a hot rocket motor March 6 at Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas. The understudies’ plan idea – called the Lunar Plume Alleviation Device, or Lunar PAD – means to tackle issues brought about by lunar residue kicked up during dispatches and arrivals.

The understudies previously proposed the new plan for a cutthroat proposition composing workshop drove by the Office of the Chief Technologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the L’SPACE Academy – the understudy cooperation project for NASA’s Lucy mission at Arizona State University in Tempe.

The group won financing to print and test a limited scale model with assistance from NASA’s Moon-to-Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) project, Austin-based development innovations startup ICON, and the Sounding Rocketry Team at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Artemis is NASA’s automated and human re-visitation of the Moon. Rousing the up and coming age of adventurers – the Artemis Generation – guarantees America will keep on driving in space investigation and disclosure. MMPACT is subsidized by NASA’s Game Changing Development Program.

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