/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12795798
An automated regolith collector is one part of the system being designed as well as a processing plant and an automated printing arm rover. All of it is being developed

>can be made on unlevel ground
>easiest way to build habs, buildings and launchpads
>can make replacement parts for your rocket
>relatively small and doesn't take up much payload volume
>makes trenches unnecessary
>makes tunnels unnecessary
>makes bricks unnecessary
>will be so important to mars it will be on the flag

>>12734818
>>12734820
Go away tunnel autists

>>12716008
Reminder that printers have shown proof of concept and are the preferred method of construction in space. They asked Elon about tunnels at the Mars Society a few months ago and he flat out said NO boring company is for traffic alleviation. not mars

>>12713944
Can you pressurize a stacked stone house? Also these memes are proof of concept nothing more. Don't expect printed habs to look anything like them

>>12692281
By printing very slowly and monitoring the process from earth (and from mars eventually). The third phase was all about this aspect and thats why the buttplug looks like a buttplug, because it was the simplest continous printing structure that also could be structurally resilient. Watch the ai Spacefactory videos, they have some issues and they had to fix them.