No one had ever built up aluminum kind of structures at that scale before. Within three months we just have a pile of metal that looked like, ou know, horrible. You look at how big or it is, the h hundred, ten foot tall structure,. Its something like a hundred miles of print area, wire fedon. So essentially what's been hard is controlling the process to have routine quality moen.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Ellis, co-founder of Relativity, to talk about why he chose 3D printing (5:00), reducing the ways things can go wrong (11:25), how it works (15:00), the cost difference vs traditional manufacturing (26:05), why Mars (30:10), leaving Blue Origin to start the company (40:15), raising money and getting into Y Combinator (46:25), manufacturing on Mars (52:45), selling investors on the idea (59:00), and the impending launch (1:05:30).
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