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US Government Authorizes Moon Express to Send Robotic Spacecraft with 3D Printed Components to the Moon in 2017
Could it really be possible that within the next decade, you can actually book a flight to the moon? Naveen Jain, the co-founder of privately funded commercial space company Moon…
GE Aviation Conducts First Test of 3D Printed Advanced Turboprop Engine Components
GE has been in the news quite a bit lately for business reasons. Their acquisitions of major 3D printing companies, as well as their proposed acquisitions and failed acquisitions, have…
Aston Martin to Use 3D Printing for Its Most Powerful Engine Yet
Grainger & Worrall (GW), an engineering company and automotive castings specialist, has secured a contract with luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin to manufacture engine blocks of Aston Martin’s DB11 using…
Robert Hofmann GmbH 3D Prints Production-Ready Cylinder Block for Volkswagen Automobile
Those of you who have been following 3D printing closely know of the immense benefits that additive manufacturing has provided to the automotive industry. Most uses have been confined to functional…
Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket Launch System & 3D Printed Rutherford Engine to Blast Off Later This Year
Like many humans—and especially because I spend so much time writing on the subjects—I’m often inclined to float away in daydream mode thinking of the expansiveness of space, our travel…
3D Printed V8 Solenoid Engine: Another Intricately Engineered Project from Sgt. Enochs
Sergeant Bryan Enochs is at it again. We’ve followed him previously in an endeavor that involved an incredibly intricate 3D printed carousel, made on his two MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printers….
XAIR-Robotics Creates First 3D Printed Solid Fuel Rocket Engine
Rockets and 3D printing go together. Like NASA and missions to space. Or hobbyists and very ambitious backyard flight plans. From RC airplanes to utilitarian drones, to rockets bound for the…
DesktopWorkshop Introduces 3D Printed Pneumatic Motor
In May, Instructables user DesktopWorkshop released the design for a 3D printed pneumatic actuator. S/he has followed up this month with the unveiling of a much more complex creation: a…
This Man 3D Prints a Functional Engine on his Airwolf 3D Printer, with Sights Set on Entire Working Locomotive
When I visit various 3D printing expos, there is usually one booth that I really enjoy stopping by and checking out. That’s the Airwolf 3D booth, where I’m always looking…
Chinese Company 3D Prints An Entire Engine
If there was one 3D printer manufacturer in China who has really taken its technology to grand heights, it would probably be a company called Winbo Smart Tech Co.,Ltd. Not…
Amazing 3D Printed 4-Foot-Tall Outboard Boat Motor Was Printed in 115 Pieces, Taking 250 Hours
3D printing is currently in its infancy, particularly when it comes to creating functional end-use products. Sure, there are some really cool devices and gadgets which have been fabricated on…
Built Almost Entirely of 3D Printed Parts, the World’s First Battery-Powered Rocket is Unveiled
3D printing has gradually been making its way into the manufacturing and fabrication of end-use, functional components and parts. Previously thought of as merely a technology for prototyping, and having…
German Engineer 3D Prints World’s First Solar Powered Stirling Engine
Each and every day, I am blown away in yet another way by all of the new innovations that have quickly been coming into existence within the 3D printing space….
Mechanical Engineer 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission for a Toyota 22RE Engine
Who says that you can’t make anything useful on a desktop 3D printer? Sure, there are plenty of designs that you can find on 3D printing repository websites which make…
NJ Engineer 3D Prints Entire Open Source Liquid Fueled Rocket Engine
Probably some of the most interesting 3D printing applications we have covered to date have been those involving engines that individuals and companies have been able to manufacture via this incredible…
Monash University 3D Prints Two Entire Metal Jet Engines
It’s only a matter of time before we begin seeing just about every man-made object on this planet 3D printed in some form or another. We’ve already seen houses, cars,…
Rolls-Royce to Get Largest-Ever 3D Printed Component Off the Ground, Flight-Testing Engine Later This Year
Large-scale 3D printed components are now getting ever larger in scale — and in terms of ambition. Later this year, Rolls-Royce — that multi-faceted company perhaps most widely known for…
Thingiverse User Shares Files to 3D Print a Moving Toyota 4 Cylinder Engine 22RE
While 3D printing enthusiasts cover the gamut with a wide range of projects from gaming figurines to avante-garde dresses and shoes, most of the serious automotive 3D printed parts and…
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Titanium 3D Printed Satellite Propulsion System Almost Ready For Space
It’s a satellite propulsion system that includes four miniature rocket engines and feed system components, a 3D printed titanium piston, a propellant tank and a pressurant tank. The MPS-120 is…
Fully 3D Printed Working Engine Runs Completely on Hot and Cold Water — and You Can Print Your Own For Free
3D printing is fascinating, especially to those individuals who have not ever seen the technology in action previously. However, like with all new technology, this fascination subsides as time goes…
Japanese Company 3D Prints a Large Working Jet Engine Replica
As time goes on, we hear more and more stories concerning the 3D printing of engines, engine parts, and other mechanical objects which we would have only dreamt of 3D…
Aerojet Rocketdyne 3D Prints An Entire Engine in Just Three Parts
It’s often funny to listen to skeptics claim that 3D printing is just a fad, and that it can’t be used for anything meaningful. From a layman’s point of view,…
