Case Study: Team Original Gravity prototypes an airtight lunar beer-brewing canister with Xometry

Xometry's 3D Printing capabilities helped a group of engineering students prototype an apparatus to make beer in space!

Team Original Gravity is a group of UC San Diego engineering students who entered the Lab2Moon competition to design a device that could brew beer on the moon and test yeast viability in lunar conditions. Their main challenges were engineering a reliable valve and airtight canister that would control carbonation and survive wide temperature swings, and they needed professional prototyping and advanced materials beyond typical campus 3D printing. To meet that need they turned to Xometry for 3D printing and fabrication support.

Xometry produced the team’s canister prototypes in nylon and applied copper and nickel plating to ensure airtightness, enabling functional valve and chamber designs for testing. That fabrication support let Team Original Gravity produce working prototypes, expand their material knowledge, and present their project as one of 25 finalists (from ~3,000 applicants) in Bangalore—an outcome the students credit to Xometry’s advanced prototyping capabilities.

Team Original Gravity

Neeki Ashari

Team Original Gravity