Our country has successfully achieved space metal 3D printing.

date
24/01/2026
Recently, the autonomous research payload on microgravity metal additive manufacturing developed by the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully completed the metal additive manufacturing experiment in space. This mission is China's first space metal additive manufacturing return scientific experiment implemented on a rocket platform, with the relevant payload carried on the Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation's Long March-1 unmanned spacecraft.