Own Voyager - to everyone and everyone: NASA has uploaded 3D models of satellites and asteroids for 3D print lovers

There are quite a few people on Habré who are interested in the topic of space, spacecraft and the aerospace industry. In addition, here, on Habré, there are quite a few owners of 3D printers. Now these two hobbies can be combined.

The fact is that NASA created and laid out 3D models of interesting objects. Total created 21 models of spacecraft and asteroids. For example, there are Kepler, Mars Odyssey, Rosetta, Voyager (as without him, the first starship in the history of mankind?), Cassini, Pioneer, LRO and other vehicles. In addition, models of the asteroids Eros and Itokawa are laid out, as well as models of formations on the surface of other planets (Gale crater, for example, which attracted the Curiosity team).
')
Of course, the database of objects available for printing will expand. Models are created by scaling the original devices / objects with the model converted to STL (there is also a Blender version). This can cause some difficulties when printing, so owners of some models of printers will have to tinker a bit.

NASA is going to involve in the project not only its own specialists, but also space enthusiasts from outside. On this page , for example, there are textures and images that can be useful to the masters of 3D cases when creating their own models of space objects, both artificial and natural.

As for the current base of models, each of them is reduced to 10 centimeters in length / width, so now your Voyager can stand on its own desktop.

You can start working with 3D models from NASA here on this page .