Printing the Internet in 3D from Space

Majestic.com – a specialist search engine and “Deloitte 50” fastest growing company in the UK - is “over the moon” to announce they have partnered with Made In Space, the world’s first space manufacturing company, to create history high above the earth.

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In the next few weeks, the company is scheduled to print a “Majestic Landscape” – a 3D data visualization – depicting “The Internet” in its entirety on a 3D printer designed by MIS to work in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

The 3D printer (the tech term is Additive Manufacturing Facility to those in-the-know) began its journey to the ISS on the Atlas V rocket last night which took off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, USA.

The 3D printer is set to reach the space station in the next three days, 250 miles above terra firma.

Why is this news?

• No one has ever recreated the Internet before in a physical form, let alone 3D print it in space!
• The data behind the 3D visualization lies in Majestic’s unique ability to crawl the internet on a massive scale and tell which websites and pages are the most trustworthy across the web.
• This will be one of the first commercial business transactions to ever be completed in space.
• Majestic and MIS are literally creating a piece of sculpture out of mathematics in space. Can there be a cooler spectacle than watching art meet science to create beautiful things?

How did Majestic do this?

• Majestic’s Search Engine is able to assign mathematical scores to every link on the web which enables businesses to tell how much influence their site may have with search engines and consumers compared with their competition.
• The mathematics looks at the quantity and quality of links across the world-wide-web which are an indication of the authority and trustworthiness of any URL or website on The Internet.
• Majestic turned to renowned designer and artist Brendan Dawes to help them create physical souvenirs of digital data that, up until now, have only been printed on planet earth.

“Space has a huge symbolic significance for our team at Majestic. Like the Internet, space is vast – possibly infinite. Like the Internet, we are able to see and experience some of space, but much of it awaits to be discovered. This #MajesticInSpace project puts into perspective, not just the huge potential for Majestic to help businesses understand how to be more successful online, but sets in motion that idea that space is far from the final frontier of human and business potential.”

About Majestic

Majestic is a UK-based search engine unlike others on the Internet. Majestic crawls the web to interpret the connections, hubs, authorities and networks that share content with the world. The search engine is in 12 languages and is used by people in over 60 countries to survey and categorize the web. This Internet map is used new media specialists and online marketing experts for a variety of uses surrounding online prominence including Link Building, Reputation Management, Website Traffic development, Competitor Analysis and News Monitoring. Majestic is constantly revisiting web pages and sees around 3 billion pages a day, making it one of the largest web crawlers on the planet. Now Majestic can also claim to be the largest web crawler off the planet as well.