NASA’s Next Generation of Rockets to Benefit from 2 Primary Advantages of 3D...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)* Program was brought into effect towards the end of last year with the aim of supporting space exploration. The project is focused on developing a heavy-lift rocket —...
View ArticleCreating A Whole Other Dimension – Enabled by 3D Printing
Researchers at MIT have used 3D printing to fabricate a three-dimensional, lightweight metamaterial lens that focuses radio waves with extreme precision. Essentially this is tech geek heaven....
View Article3D Printing Satellites
When we talk about the satellites orbiting the earth the image that comes to most people’s mind often resembles a small-scale space station with reflective mirror panels and antennae sticking out. The...
View ArticleGoing Large on 3D Printed Aerospace Parts
The vibe coming out of Euromold at the end of last year was all about scaling up 3D printers for bigger applications. Well, one of the biggest 3DP applications I’ve ever seen in metal came to light...
View ArticleHome Away From Home: 3D-Printed Habitats on the Moon
The Earth’s Moon: an empty and pointless waste of rock, with nothing to do and no one to do it…until now. A consortium of European companies and organizations, including London-based architectural...
View ArticleAdvanced Manufacturing at GE — Progress and Future Strategy
Back in November of last year, GE Aviation (a GE subsidiary and a global producer of jet engines) announced its acquisition of Morris Technologies and sister company RQM, citing critical investment in...
View ArticleSinterHab: Insectoids, Microwaves and 3D Printed Moon Bases
The day finally came when I read the headline “Giant NASA Spider Robots Could 3D Print Lunar Bases Using Microwaves”. As the universe would have it, the collective imagination that is culture had used...
View ArticleCan 3D Printed Jet Engine Parts Save Us from Global Warming?
With air travel steadily increasing and jet exhaust contributing to about 3% of global CO2 emissions, it’s become clear that something needs to be done about the effect that jet engines have on the...
View ArticleEuropean Space Agencies Off-world 3D-Printed Toolbox
Is this the world’s most advanced toolbox? Possibly not. But it may be the off-world’s most advanced toolbox, 3D-printed, and now in orbit to help maintain Europe’s Columbus research module. The new...
View ArticleFrench Survey Copter partners up with Stratasys to create 3D Printed Drones...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or as they’re more commonly called drones are not exactly a new concept – neither in the most familiar military context or in other more peace-oriented settings. However,...
View ArticleSuccess! Zero-G Tests Passed to Send First 3D Printer to Space
Organizations like NASA and the European Space Agency have developed such ambitious additive manufacturing plans as 3D-printed space food, laser sintered moon bases, and printer-mounted robospiders,...
View ArticleChinese Rocket 3D-Printed Seats
For a decade China has been developing additive manufacturing (3D printing) for advanced space flight. Since 1998 Professor Cui Guoqi, director of the Rapid Prototyping Research Center in Tianjin...
View ArticleEuropean 3D Printed Drones
Drones, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by governments and other officials, have been more publicly visible and debated over in the US, but are emerging (and already apparent) in the old...
View ArticleNASA’s 3D-Printed Rocket Part Beats Test Firing
NASA has successfully tested its first rocket engine component made using 3D printing. A series of firings of a liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen rocket injector assembly demonstrated the ability to...
View ArticleNew 3D Manufacturing Process — Materialising Micro Lattice Structures
After the International Conference on AM & 3DP in Nottingham last week, I wrote up my review of the event and the story that has generated the most interest and the most questions — by far — is...
View Article3D Printing Micro-Satellites
Last year, the whole Twittersphere lit up with excitement over the announcement that a team at the University of Washington lead by Amit Bandyopadhyay had created a 3D printer that could use lunar...
View ArticleLOHAN to Get High Enough to See Stars: 3D Printed Spaceplane from The Register
Not since Lance Bass was going to shoot himself into oblivion has a celebrity made space-related headlines like The Register’s PARIS and LOHAN projects. In 2010, the Special Projects Bureau of UK tech...
View Article3D Printing in Zero Gravity
NASA is looking forward to having 3D Printing available in its space stations. Watch this video to hear why NASA and Made in Space think 3d printing can be highly useful on space stations.…The post 3D...
View ArticleNasa Testing 3D Printed Rocket Engine Parts
Check out this new video from NASA to learn how the engineers designed and tested a large 3-D printed rocket engine part. It’s a new class of fabrication technology so they need to test, qualify and...
View Article3D Printing & Space (Part 1): An Interstellar Voyager
Voyager 1 has left the solar system. An amazing feat considering it set off from Earth shortly after Elvis left the building for the final time. The technology of species Homo Sapien can now be...
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