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Barry Bishop 1.1 1 === Details ===
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Dominik Rabl 14.1 3 |(% style="width:204px" %)**Acronym**|(% style="width:1252px" %)MELT
4 |(% style="width:204px" %)**Description**|(% style="width:1252px" %)zero-g compatible 3D printer
Dominik Rabl 17.1 5 |(% style="width:204px" %)**Principal Investigator (PI)**|(% style="width:1252px" %)Ugo Lafont ~| [[Ugo.Lafont@esa.int>>mailto:Ugo.Lafont@esa.int]]
Dominik Rabl 14.1 6 |(% style="width:204px" %)**Organisation** |(% style="width:1252px" %)ESA
Dominik Rabl 17.1 7 |(% style="width:204px" %)**Co-Investigators**|(% style="width:1252px" %)Riccardo Rampini ~| [[Riccardo.Rampini@esa.int>>mailto:Riccardo.Rampini@esa.int]]
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9 === Summary ===
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Dominik Rabl 14.1 16 ESA has developed a zero-g compatible 3d printer to be deployed during AMADEE-20 in the habitat to investigate its performance under field conditions. ESA’s Manufacturing of Experimental Layer [[image:MELT_manifest.png||height="155" style="float:right" width="161"]]Technology (MELT) project printer has to be able to operate from any orientation, based on the ‘fuse filament fabrication’ process, it has been designed to fit within a standard ISS payload rack, and to meet the Station’s rigorous safety standards.
17 The MELT printer can print a wide variety of thermoplastics from ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene), up to high-melting point engineering thermoplastics such PEEK (Polyether ether ketone), which is robust enough to substitute for metal materials in some cases.
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Dominik Rabl 10.1 19 === Experiment Data ===
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Martin Schlecker 19.1 23 |(% style="width:127px" %)[[2021-10-18>>https://mission.oewf.org/archive_downloads/amadee20/MELT_COMPL/2021-10-18]]|(% style="width:871px" %)8x .jpeg
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