Printed Swiss Robot Aiming for Space
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. 3D printed space stuff is cool. It’s just as well because this year is turning out to be a boon for 3D printed space hardware stories, and this ...
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Aerospace
The aerospace industry embraces 3D printing technology. NASA 3D prints combustion chamber liners and uses 3d printing for their next move on Mars.
NASA Selects Continuous Composites for Space Isogrid Printing
Space hardware needs a lot of panels. Be it for rocket bodies, satellite structures, and even space stations. In particular, space hardware needs strong, stiff and lightweight panels. ...
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Load-bearing Metal Parts Certified by EASA
It is always exciting to see a new first in certified aerospace metal components, and this one is particularly significant as it is the first load-bearing metal printed part to be certified ...
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New 3D Printed Rocket Engine (Available for Order)
Colorado-based rocket engine company Ursa Major has used 3D printing to build a reusable, liquid oxygen/methane rocket engine capable of delivering 200,000 lbs of thrust. The engine, ...
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World’s Largest Printed Aerospike Engine Unveiled
Traditional rockets are incredibly inefficient for a number of reasons, not least due to the fact that they are mostly disposable. But reusability aside, another reason that rockets are ...
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Drone Demos Printed Antenna Nose
Additive manufacturing offers a number of benefits to those wishing to develop antennas in various non-traditional geometries, and a team of researchers in the US have recently test-flown a ...
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CNT-infused Polymeric Inks Yield Promising Results
A team of researchers from Michigan Technological University have demonstrated printing of carbon nanotube (CNT) infused epoxy inks, and have published a paper recently in the Additive ...
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Indian Partnership Yields Country’s First AM Aero Engine Part
Indian state-owned aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has partnered with Intech Additive Solutions to produce the country’s first metal AM component for jet ...
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Largest Plastic Aircraft Part Printed
Aerospace is gradually looking at new ways to replace metals with plastics, and existing plastics with even better, modern plastics, composites, and manufacturing methods. Traditionally, ...
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Satellite Benefits From Metal AM Weight Reduction
The European Space Agency’s 15-year Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Program is aimed at stimulating R&D and creating innovative products for the global space-based...
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GE gets USAF Airworthiness Cert for Metal AM Critical Part
GE has announced that their printed metal jet engine sump cover has received USAF airworthiness certification, adding another example to the very small list of printed critical parts for use ...
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20ft Rocket Stage 3D Printed and Ready for Test
California-based space company Relativity Space has shared a bunch of new pictures on their social media showing the progress of their metal AM rocket stage. We thought we would re-share ...
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Saab Tests AM for Battle Damage Repairs on Gripen Fighter
Most of our aviation-related 3D printed stories focus on internal components hidden deep inside aircraft machinery, and most of those stories focus on metal printed components. Swedish ...
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Danish Duo 3D Print Lunar Habitat
Learn how two Danish architects utilize Craftbot 3D printers to see their vision come to fruition: LUNARK a 3D printed lunar habitat.
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EBAM used for Large Satellite Structures
Lockheed Martin has been experimenting with 3D printed components for large satellite structures for a while now. Even back in 2018 they were trialing the use of metal AM for the fabrication ...
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Researchers Develop CoNi-Based Superalloys for 3D Printing
One of the hurdles that’s still being overcome in metal 3D printing is the ability to print with superalloys. The most common forms of metal printing that involve selectively melting metal ...
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Prototyping a Vortex Rocket Engine with a Desktop 3D Printer
It seems that every rocket manufacturer has adopted 3D printing in some way, whether they’re printing nozzles, injectors, engines, or entire rockets (in the future). There’s also a lot of ...
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NASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up Rockets
We have taken a look at how the private sector are using additive manufacturing to build rocket engines in this previous article. In that example, the engineers use powder bed fusion for ...
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Hexcel Launches HexPEKK SLS Material with EM Shielding and Radar Absorption
Hexcel, an advanced materials supplier, has recently launched HexPEKK EM, formulated specifically to meet the static electricity management, electromagnetic shielding, and radiation ...
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Digital Twins and 3D Printing for Army Helicopters
We are seeing more and more stories at the intersection of 3D printing and Digital Twin / VR technology recently, especially it seems in the domain of aerospace engineering. In this ...
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