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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Aerospace
The aerospace industry embraces 3D printing technology. NASA 3D prints combustion chamber liners and uses 3d printing for their next move on Mars.
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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Chinese Mars Rocket had 50 3D Printed Components
In July 2020, the CNSA (Chinese National Space Agency) launched their Mars spacecraft on top of a Long March 5 rocket. The mission, known as Tianwen-1, comprises three segments, being an ...
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First Flight Critical Aerospace Component Receives FAA Certification
Defence giant Honeywell, has recently announced that their 3D printed bearing housing has been approved for use on the Dassault Falcon 20G maritime patrol aircraft. At last, a 3D printed ...
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Singaporean Company Gets Certified for Aviation Printing
Singapore-based Additive Flight Solutions Pte. Ltd. has received AS9100D certification, which will enable the company to provide parts to the aerospace industry. AS9100D is an aerospace ...
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ESA Tests ALM Rocket Engine
Last week we took a look at the 3D printed liquid rocket engine in the world from a Brooklyn-based company called Launcher. They had 3D printed a copper rocket nozzle, throat and combustion ...
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Copper Rocket Engine Test Launch Date Draws Near
The CEO of 3D printed rocket engine company Launcher, has posted an interesting image of their new Launcher E-2 engine after it was cut from the build plate with wire EDM. In case you ...
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General Atomics Launch First 3D Printed Metal Parts
Drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has teamed up with GE Additive to develop their first metal printed component. The whole process from development to first ...
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National Aerospace Solutions 3D Print Discontinued Part For Lube Oil System
For many factories and engineering facilities, procuring small components can be a massive headache. Arnold Airforce Base found themselves in such a situation, in need of a circuit breaker ...
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Betatype Rocket Nozzle: Optimised Parts Print 28% Faster
UK-based Betatype and CAE/topology optimisation software developer nTopology developed a means of functional and process optimisation for rocket nozzle parts. Consequently, the part is not ...
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