Spacewalking Cosmonauts Initiate 3D-Printed Small Sat Test

August 17, 2017
Credit: Tomsk TPU-120: TPU
HOUSTON—Russia staked claim to the first Earth-orbiting 3D-printed small satellite Aug. 17 following deployment of the Tomsk TPU-120 by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin outside the International Space Station. The deployment came soon after Yurchikhin embarked on a planned 6-hr. spacewalk with his...

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