For the first rocket, there's for sure parts of the in the engines that look wildly different from a non treety printed product. Much, much more organic looking. But for our next rocket with terran r we're starting to look at more agrithmically generated structures. And then threety printers are really the only things that can manufacture those types of structures.
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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