[4] Archinaut was intended to be a 3D printer capable of operating in-orbit, installed on a pod attached outside the International Space Station.
[4] In June 2017, MIS conducted a month-long successful thermal vacuum chamber test at NASA Ames Research Center's Engineering Evaluation Laboratory (EEL) on its Extended Structure Additive Manufacturing Machine (ESAMM) technology.
[5] In July 2019, MIS was awarded a NASA contract for robotic manufacturing and an assembly flight demo mission called Archinaut One.
Archinaut One, which was intended to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2024,[1] would have included two ten meter solar arrays placed on an ESPA satellite.
[6] In 2020, Redwire (which acquired MIS earlier in the year) successfully printed a 23 ft (7.0 m) flight-like beam in conditions similar to those expected on orbit.