Astronauts, get your welding goggles on – the space station is going into the foundry business. The International Space Station is set to do a spot of industrial research this June, when ESA’s Materials Science Laboratory-Electromagnetic Levitator heads for the station aboard Europe's’ ATV-5 Georges Lemaître unmanned space freighter as part of a program to study the casting of alloys in a weightless environment... Continue Reading Electromagnetic Levitator headed to ISS for future materials research
Section: Space
Tags: Electromagnetic, ESA, International Space Station, Manufacturing, Research
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