NASA Awarded Contract To ICON, A 3D Printing Company, To Build Mars Building

Sunday - October 15 2023, 13:25 UTC - 1 year ago

In 2022, NASA awarded a $57.2 million contract to ICON, a 3D printing company, to build a 1700 square foot Mars building. The construction tech startup, Icon, was estimated to be worth $2 billion as of the last funding round, had debuted the America's first permitted 3D-printed home in 2018. In October 2021, Icon announced its partnership with homebuilding giant Lennar to develop a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Austin with the first one debuted in March 2022.

In 2022, NASA awarded a $57.2 million contract to ICON, a 3D printing company based in Austin, Texas. The contract runs through 2028. They have already 3D Printed a 1700 square foot Mars building at NASA but it was not in simulated vacuum. The construction technology startup. Icon, raised $185 million in a funding round that closed in February, bringing its total funding to $451 million. Icon was estimated to be worth $2 billion at the last funding round .

Icon debuted America’s first permitted 3D-printed home in 2018, just one year after the company was founded. October, 2021, it announced a partnership with homebuilding giant Lennar to develop a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Austin. The first home in the project debuted in March, 2022, featuring the 2,000-square-foot House Zero and a 350-square-foot guest house, which took just eight days to build with the firm’s Vulcan technology .