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3D Printing News Briefs, September 9, 2021: Events, Materials, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, the first Formnext + PM South China finally opens this week. In materials news, a biomedical company introduced what it calls the first purified…
Launcher’s New Orbital Transfer Vehicle to Rideshare on SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2022
Launcher’s new orbit transfer vehicle (OTV) will debut on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare for its inaugural flight to Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in October 2022. Known as Launcher Orbiter, the…
Launcher Raises $11.7M in Funding for 3D Printed Rocket Engines
Amid growing competition in the potentially lucrative small launch vehicle segment, startup Launcher Space has raised $11.7 million in a Series A round of funding led by company CEO and…
Launcher Acquires AMCM M4K Printer to 3D Print Whole Engine Combustors on Site
Back in 2018, the CEO and founder of rocket company Launcher, Max Haot, was looking for a solution to print entire combustion chambers for his rocket engine. The parts are…
Morf3D Launches New 3D Printing Facility in California
Aerospace metal 3D printing firm Morf3D launched its new headquarters in Long Beach, California. The 90,000 square feet space located at 3550 Carson Street will house both the company’s business…
Relativity Space Secures $3M NASA Contract to Launch CubeSats in 2022
The U.S. space agency’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has allotted contracts to three companies on December 11, 2020, to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats, and nanosatellites….
Mighty Buildings’ Commercial House 3D Printing Automates Construction by 80 Percent
3D printing construction today can build more than just walls, structural shells or components. It can build the entire house, as Mighty Buildings has shown, including floors, ceiling, roofs and…
Relativity Secures a New Launch Site in California for 3D Printed Rockets
A new launch site facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California will be Relativity Space‘s latest adoption to its growing portfolio of infrastructure partnerships. With this new addition,…
Virgin Orbit’s Kevin Zagorski: “AM is the Future of how Rockets will be Designed and Built”
A rocket launched from Earth needs to reach a speed of at least 7.9 kilometers per second to get to space. That’s 20 times the speed of sound and six…
Long Beach: The New Site for Relativity Space’s 3D Printed Rockets
Commercial space companies are looking to get their technology to orbit. This decade could mark a big shift in the race for space domination, with a few big names taking…
New 3D Printing Facilities: atum3D Moves to New Headquarters, Sharebot Opens Showroom in California
Headquarters and international locations offer companies a home base (or home-away-from-home base) from which to operate, serving as the centers for their business operations. Opening new facilities represents a major…
UCLA Chapter of 3D4E to Provide 3D Printed Ukeleles for Disadvantaged Children
The inseparable nature of art and science is continually demonstrated through 3D printing, from the creation of sculptures in which an innate understanding of the material and process of 3D…
FOMAS and INTECO Groups Sign Joint Agreement to Produce Metal 3D Printing Powders in Next-Gen Plants
The 3D metal printing industry just continues to go up in value as more innovations, like printers and other machines, unique materials, software, and processes, continue to be developed every day. There…
Formalloy Releases Latest Metal 3D Printing System: L-Series Machine with Blue Wavelength Laser Technology
Metal 3D printing company Formalloy, established last January in sunny San Diego, has been keeping very busy. In addition to developing and then showcasing its flagship A222 3D printer, which…
Feetz on the Streetz Takes Custom 3D Printed Shoes on a Pop-Up Shop Road Trip
At my old job, food trucks would come and occasionally park in our lot for a few hours during lunch, and sometimes we’d get a fashion store’s mobile truck as…
Grants Awarded to FAMU-FSU and CCSF Offer Financial Support for 3D Printing Education and Research
Being awarded an educational grant can help schools take on innovative projects and research that they may not be able to do otherwise. In terms of additive manufacturing, grants can…
Creative Design Platform Gantri Offers Free Resources and 3D Printing, So Designers Can Quickly Bring Products to Market
If you’re interested in designing unique products and easily selling them online, but aren’t sure where to start, look no further than Gantri, a new, free platform for designers to…
Fourth Grade School Project Takes on Another Dimension as Dad Helps with 3D Printing Historic California Mission
In elementary school, we all had to make a diorama in a shoebox that depicted a scene from one of our favorite books; for the life of me I can’t…
Techniplas Moving Towards Digitization, Establishing New 3D Printing Business Unit for Rapid Tooling Development
Automotive injection molder Technicplas LLC, headquartered in Wisconsin, provides custom injection molding for customers all over the world, and the company recently made a big step in its move to…
First 3D Printed Titanium Implant for the Sacroiliac Joint, the iFuse-3D Implant, Gets FDA Clearance
Titanium has been used to 3D print all sorts of items, like hearing aids and airplane parts, and even a Garmin cycle mount, but the metal is really making a difference in…
3D Printing News Briefs: May 5, 2017
In this week’s second helping of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re talking about challenges and awards, 3D printer distribution, and a little business. Airwolf 3D is sponsoring the fourth annual…
NASA’s PUFFER Microbot Has 3D Printed Wheels to Climb Up Martian Slopes
The rovers that could be used to explore the moon, or other planets in our galaxy, are increasingly being designed and built using 3D printing technology, like Part Time Scientists’ Audi-sponsored…
LLNL Researchers First to 3D Print Aerospace-Grade Carbon Fiber Composites, Using a Modified DIW 3D Printing Process
California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has a 60-year history of applying technology and science to make the world a safer place, and has a vision to be the premier destination…
Digital Fabrication in Architecture and 3D Printing Materials in Focus at AAAS Annual Meeting
The use of 3D printing in the construction field is not a new thing – there are 3D printed office buildings and laboratories, a 9-foot-tall 3D printed pavilion, 3D printed…
