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Printing the next generation of rocket engines

Additive Rocket Corp. combines additive manufacturing with a tool called generative design, where computer algorithms develop thousands of different designs ...
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Airbus and Sigma Labs partner to qualify metal 3D printing for aerospace

Sigma Labs , a Santa Fe-based additive manufacturing software developer, has announced a collaboration with international aerospace company Airbus to ...
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Inside aerospace additive manufacturing certification at Farnborough Airshow 2018

As a high-value, and heavily standardized industry, certification of course is one of the main preoccupations when considering 3D printing ...
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KLM uses Leapfrog 3D printers for aircraft prototyping and tooling

3D printed tool holder used while performing inspections on aircraft engines. Dutch 3D printer manufacturer, Leapfrog , has unveiled how ...
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Nascar driver Brad Keselowski started a 3D printing company

Nascar was an early adopter of 3D printing because it enables their engineers to prototype faster, testing more design iterations ...
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Momentus–Relativity Space Agreement Will Lead to Multiple Launches for First 3D Printed Rocket

Relativity Space, headquartered in Los Angeles, continues to forge ahead within the 3D printing and additive manufacturing realm—but even more ...
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Metal 3D Printing Material Scalmalloy Could be the Aircraft Material of the Future

[Image: GE Aviation] Aviation is one of the many industries around the world that’s increasing its adoption of 3D printing ...
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The Great Fit Between 3D Printing and the Aerospace & Defense Market

3D printing offer great opportunities for especially the Defense and Aerospace industry. This industry produces complex part geometries driven by ...
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3D printed parts save Lockheed Martin F-35 program $45 million

Lockheed Martin , the global aerospace and defense company, has reported price reduction of its F-35 Full Mission Simulator (FMS) ...
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Relativity Space 3D Prints 11-Foot-Tall Fuel Tank with Stargate 3D Printer

Relativity Space is not alone in wanting to 3D print rockets – there are plenty of companies with the goal ...
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Qatar Airways to install Diehl’s largest 3D-printed part

Qatar Airways to install Diehl’s largest 3D-printed part 0 At a time when 3D printing technology is continuing to progress, ...
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Aerospace Company Purchases Six Additional MetalFAB1 3D Printers from Additive Industries

In 2015, Dutch company Additive Industries officially introduced its industrial MetalFAB1 3D printing system. Beta testing for the machine began ...
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Nine Most Recent Posts in Aerospace and Aeronautics

Air Force Pushes 3D Printing To Boost Readiness

by David | Sep 20, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation, Military | 0 Comments

It may sound boring, but maintenance of military aircraft is a big deal — and one that the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (LCMC) intends to improve, in part via 3D printing. . Former Defense Secretary Mattis issued a fiat that all fighters had to hit 80...

Futuristic GalaXsea 3D Printed Space Solar Sailboat for Space Exploration

by David | Sep 20, 2019 | Aerospace and Aviation | 0 Comments

GalaXsea , a futuristic 3D printed space solar sailboat. . It’s like coming out of Sci-Fi movie, here’s a space sailboat that would go mid-way from the Earth and the Stars. A new vision of the future begins. . This project was born out of curiosity to discover the...

U of R team building huge 3D printer for interstellar challenge

by David | Sep 15, 2019 | 3D Trends, Aerospace and Aviation, Printers | 0 Comments

The average 3D printer has a footprint of about 90 square centimetres. So it's not too crazy to use the word "huge" when describing the one being built by a team of students at the University of Regina. . "I’d say it’s one of the largest in western Canada as far as...

Momentus–Relativity Space Agreement Will Lead to Multiple Launches for First 3D Printed Rocket

by David | Sep 13, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation, Companies | 0 Comments

Relativity Space, headquartered in Los Angeles, continues to forge ahead within the 3D printing and additive manufacturing realm—but even more so, within the aerospace industry. . Now, they have announced a partnership with Momentus, in the form of a Launch Services...

Launch Deal Increases Space Destinations Aboard A Single 3D-Printed Rocket

by David | Sep 11, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation, Companies | 0 Comments

Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket will help send satellites to more zones in orbit through a new agreement announced Wednesday (Sept. 11) with Momentus. . A Terran 1 rocket launch for 2021 will launch Momentus customers to space, and then Momentus' "shuttle...

The Quest to 3D-Print a Passenger Plane Engine — And Fly It

by David | Sep 7, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation | 0 Comments

One-third of GE’s Catalyst engine, a turboprop set to fly in the Cessna Denali, is 3D printed. It has the most 3D-printed parts of any plane engine in the world. . In 2014, eight engineers started a secret project behind the walls of GE Aviation’s headquarters. Their...

3D printing could allow us to create a lunar colony to live on the moon

by David | Sep 4, 2019 | Aerospace and Aviation, Printers | 0 Comments

The entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to build permanent bases on the moon, or perhaps even Mars or beyond, then future astronauts will have to spend many more days, months and maybe even years in space without a constant...

3D Printing May Be The Key To Practical Scramjets

by David | Sep 3, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation | 0 Comments

The first scramjet, an airbreathing jet engine capable of pushing an aircraft beyond Mach 5, was successfully flown in the early 1990s. But while pretty much any other technology you could imagine has progressed by leaps and bounds in the nearly 30 years that have...

Boeing HorizonX Ventures provides further funding for Morf3D metal additive manufacturing

by David | Aug 30, 2019 | 3D News, Aerospace and Aviation, Companies, Manufacturing, Metal | 0 Comments

Boeing HorizonX Ventures, the seed and mid/growth stage investment arm of the Boeing aerospace corporation, has provided further funding to metal 3D printing specialist Morf3D. Founded in 2015, the additive manufacturing and consultancy service received its...