Caracol and Eligio Re Fraschini Validate WAAM for Aerospace Tooling with 50% Weight Reduction

Italian aerospace tooling specialist Eligio Re Fraschini partnered with robotic additive manufacturing company Caracol on a co-funded pilot project to test whether wire arc additive manufacturing could viably replace conventional methods for complex aerospace tooling components.  The target was a…

NMIS Engineers Demonstrate Manufacturing Pathway for Copper Rocket Nozzles

A team of engineers at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has demonstrated a manufacturing pathway for copper rocket nozzles using high-pressure cold spray (HPCS) technology. The results point to the technique’s potential as a faster, more scalable alternative to…

AnyShape and Materialise Join Eurodrone’s Production Chain

Belgian metal additive manufacturing company AnyShape has been selected as an industrial partner by Airbus Defence and Space for the Eurodrone program. The contract is not a prototype run or a technology demonstration. It covers sustained production volumes over multiple…

ETH Zurich Ignites Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine

A student team from ETH Zurich‘s Academic Space Initiative Switzerland (ARIS) has successfully ignited a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) using liquid propellants, recording stable detonation waves during a night test at Dübendorf Airfield in Switzerland.  The achievement, reached by…

India’s First Four-Engine Cluster Firing Marks New Frontier for Agnikul Cosmos

Agnikul Cosmos, the Chennai-based private launch startup, has reached another propulsion milestone: the simultaneous firing of four semi-cryogenic rocket engines, all of them 3D printed as individual, single-piece components and developed entirely in-house at the company’s Rocket Factory 1 facility.…

Smart Skin Technology to Protect Robots in Space

The European Space Agency has appointed a pan-European consortium led by Danish Technological Institute, a Denmark-based research and technology organization, to develop a protective covering for robotic arms used in space. Called Smart Skin for Exploration Cobots, the €1.65 million…

Rocket Lab’s 3D Printed Engine Hits 1,000 Units

US-based space systems company Rocket Lab has completed production of its 1,000th Rutherford engine at its Long Beach, California facility,  a milestone that reflects the maturation of additive manufacturing as a viable industrial process in orbital spaceflight. The Rutherford is…

Caracol and Formes et Volumes Enhance Aerospace Composite Tooling

Italian 3D printer manufacturer Caracol has partnered with French manufacturer Formes et Volumes to produce a large-scale composite lamination tool for aerospace using robotic large-format additive manufacturing, combining fiber-reinforced thermoplastics and hybrid post-processing in a single integrated workflow.   Built on…

LEAP 71 and Sindan Are Industrializing AI-Designed Aerospace

LEAP 71, a Computational Engineering firm out of Dubai, and Sindan, an AI-driven manufacturing company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, revealed their strategic alliance at the Make it in the Emirates trade show on May 4, 2026. The collaboration targets the…

A Low-Power Path to Mars Radiation Shielding Made With Innovative 3D Printed Basalt Structures

Ahmedabad-based space research and technology company AAKA Space Studio has 3D printed a physical radiation shield using materials engineered to replicate the chemical composition of Martian soil.  The shield was demonstrated at an analog space mission in Gujarat, with raw…