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Industrial Capabilities in Space

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Build industrial capacity on the Moon and in space, from extracting silicon, aluminum, iron and titanium to 3D printing structures from lunar regolith.

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This short request asks for industrial capabilities on the Moon and in space. Two examples are given: using electrolysis to pull materials like silicon, aluminum, iron and titanium out of lunar soil, and 3D printing complex structures from melted regolith, which the author expects to be more efficient than on Earth because the structures need no supports.

Written by Adi Oltean of Starcloud, a YC company.

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