Toward the development of its next generation space exploration vehicles, NASA has significantly ramped up efforts to incorporate 3D printing in component design. In July, the administration’s e…
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Airbus installs first 3D printed titanium bracket on a production A350 aircraft
Airbus has completed the installation of a 3D printed titanium bracket on an in-series production A350 XWB aircraft. Though in service since January 2015 with 1,000 3D printed parts on board, the A350…
Amaero and Monash University 3D printed rocket engine passes test fire
The 3D printed “Project X” Aerospike engine made through a collaboration between Monash University, Amaero (an offshoot of Monash), Next Aero and Woodside energy has been successfully fire…
3D printed components rocket with Indian satellite launch
Wipro, an Indian IT services corporation has successfully collaborated with German additive manufacturing giant EOS to produce a 3D printed functional metal satellite component. The “North West …
NASA’s Refabricator recycling 3D printer makes space the place for green materials
Robust and refrigerator-like, the ‘Refabricator’ is poised to lead NASA’s recycling initiative for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Set to launch 2018, the ma…
U.S. Marine’s 3D printed drone is 200 times cheaper than production version
3D printed drone technology has been an emerging area over the past year, with military surveillance use seeing a particular boom. To add to the recent developments in drone delivery systems and swarm…
Phase two of NASA’s deep space habitat challenge finds a winner in architect & tech firm collaboration
As part of its support for the application 3D printing technology to deep space exploration, NASA has awarded a $250,000 prize to a joint team consisting of members from Foster+Partners California and…
Dr Tobias Schaedler of HRL labs tells 3DPrintingIndustry how additive manufacturing really is rocket science
In January 2016, Malibu, California-based HRL Laboratories announced that they had developed a new method of 3D printing polymer-derived ceramics into complex shapes. This involves a pre-ceramic Silic…
Russia launches first 3D printed space craft
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin has successfully launched the country’s first 3D printed satellite. During a spacewalk from the International Space Station with fellow Roscomos cosmonaut Sergey Ry…
Airbus sets sights on space with first 3D Systems printed RF satellite filter
The latest development from a collaboration between 3D Systems and Airbus proves that space is the place for 3D printing. In the redesign of a radio frequency (RF) filter engineers have managed to byp…