WICHITA—Wichita State University is leading a new a three-year project to assist NASA’s manufacturing paradigm shift from “factories on earth” to “factories in space.” Other participants in the initiative include the University of Kansas and Spirit AeroSystems Inc.
“This project will pioneer new in-space manufacturing technology based on electrospinning,” says Wujun Si, Ph.D., assistant professor of industrial, systems and manufacturing engineering at Wichita State. “It will significantly overcome some fundamental challenges faced by the current technology based on additive manufacturing.”