NASA Langley Research Center
3D Printing News Briefs: December 2, 2019
We’re finishing up with formnext news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to a presentation and some business. Flightware presented its work on LPBF in-situ inspection…
NASA Successfully Tests 3D Printed Copper Combustion Chamber
NASA is constantly bringing additive manufacturing into use on projects, whether it’s 3D printing rocket engine parts or launching 3D printed CubeSats into space. For several years, NASA has been…
Metal 3D Printing Company COSM to Design Electron Beam System for NASA Space Manufacturing Program
The future of human space exploration depends on our ability to manufacture in space – and we’re making good progress in that area, with 3D printers installed on the International…
ISS Astronauts 3D Print Radiation Shields for Experiments Aboard the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
Last April, the eighth SpaceX resupply mission carried the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, to the International Space Station. Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace made the experimental module, which was…
Additive Manufacturing Education for Space and Prosthetics: City Tech Receives $1.3M in STEM Research Grants
Students in New York City attending City Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Design Technology will be able to graduate as double threats as manufacturing skills are woven heavily…
Orbital ATK Successfully Tests 3D Printed Hypersonic Engine Combustor
Scramjet technology has been around for a while, but recently it seems like it’s everywhere. I love the name — it stands for “supersonic combustion ramjet” — but it also…
