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Rocket Lab and its 3D Printed Rockets Look Toward a Prolific Future
Rocket Lab started off 2018 with quite a bang, launching its partially 3D printed Electron rocket from its New Zealand launch site in January. This was the second launch and first…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 3, 2018
We’ve got a little business for you today in the first edition of 3D Printing News Briefs this October, followed by some examples of the seemingly endless applications for 3D…
3D Printing News Briefs: August 14, 2018
We’re taking care of business first in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by a story about 3D printed glasses and then moving on into the aerospace sector. 3YOURMIND is…
Zero 2 Infinity Gets Ready to Blast Off with 3D Printed Rocket Engine
3D printing and other advanced technologies are making many things more accessible, and one of those is outer space. Companies such as Zero 2 Infinity are offering average people the opportunity…
Partially 3D Printed Rocket Lab Electron Vehicle Successfully Reaches Orbit and Deploys Payloads
For as long as humans have been self aware, they have been pondering the future. The visions generally seem to run along one of two tracks. The first is a…
Production of 3D Printed Promethus Rocket Engine Demonstrator Moves Along with New €75M Contract
In 2030, European launcher engines will look quite different than they do today. That’s the goal, anyway, and the development of the Prometheus demonstrator engine is a good start. Prometheus…
Australian Researchers Design, Build, and Test-Fire 3D Printed Rocket Engine in Four Months
The race to a complete, 3D printed rocket engine is on – NASA has been working for years to develop a fully 3D printed rocket engine, and this summer Rocket…
Rocket Crafters Receives DARPA Contract for 3D Printed Rocket Engine
This week, Rocket Crafters, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a $542,600 contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build and test a large-scale hybrid rocket engine…
History Made as 3D Printed Engine Launches Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket into Space
All week, New Zealanders have been waiting to see if their country would become the 11th one to reach outer space with a cargo-carrying vehicle. Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket, equipped with…
Rocket Lab Prepares to Launch First Electron Rocket with 3D Printed Rutherford Engines
Two years ago, New Zealand company Rocket Lab announced that they had developed the world’s first battery-powered rocket, and that the engine would be almost entirely 3D printed. This week or next, that…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes Critical Design Review for AR1 Engine with 3D Printed Rocket Engine Injectors
In early 2016, rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne was the recipient of a $6 million contract from the US Air Force to define 3D printed rocket engine component…
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Future of 3D Printing in Space
Aerojet Rocketdyne is a space and rocket engine company that has made the space shuttle engines, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile engines for the Minuteman and other ICBMs, Atlas V stages and…
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About 3D Printing
If you’ve spent a long time working with 3D printing, whether at a hobbyist or professional level, you may tend to forget that there are still many people who don’t…
NASA Fires Up 3D Printed Rocket Engine for Latest Series of Tests
While many people may be ringing in the New Year with some sort of (hopefully legal) fireworks this coming weekend, no one’s display will beat that of NASA, which is…
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…
Small Companies Use 3D Printing to Carry Space Exploration to New Heights
We write about CubeSats at 3DPrint.com a lot, for a few reasons. One, they’re often 3D printed, at least partially. Two, there’s never before been anything quite like them – small,…
Look Out, NASA – Here Comes Vulcan-1! Students Successfully Launch Rocket With Fully 3D Printed Engine
Sorry, NASA, you’ve been usurped – for the moment, anyway. It’s no secret that the agency has been working towards building a rocket engine made completely from 3D printed parts,…
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…
US Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Set 3D Printed Rocket Engine Standards
Sacramento, California-based rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne just received a $6 million contract from the US Air Force to define 3D printed rocket engine component standards. These new…
NASA’s First-Ever Fully 3D Printed Rocket Engine is 75% Complete
If you’re following 3D printing news at all, you probably know that NASA has been working towards building an entirely 3D printed rocket, and they’re getting closer, one part at…
3D Printed Rocket is Ready to Go to the Moon
We’ve learned a lot about the moon since 1969, when the first humans landed on it. Recent technology has allowed us to get some amazing looks at its surface, but…
Using Shapeways to 3D Print a Tiny, Fuel Free Microwave EMDrive Thruster?
You want to believe. You want to believe that a prototype propulsion engine has been built which generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside an enclosed metal funnel which produces…
NASA 3D Prints the World’s First Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part
Day in and day out, we see new types of technologies emerge from the 3D printing space, as well as different uses which test the feasibility and potential that 3D…
Stratasys 3D Printers Helping to Launch Rockets into Space
One of my favorite aspects of writing about technology like 3D printing is watching how many different types of industries find uses for it. Over the years I’ve seen 3D printers…
