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3D Printing News Briefs, May 17, 2023: Stress-Resistant Alloy, 3D Printed Trophies, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with a little research, as materials scientists developed a 3D printing process that produces an extremely stress-resistant alloy. Moving on to…
Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne to Push NASA’s Space Exploration with 3D Printing
Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne will expand their partnerships with NASA, with the aerospace giants aiming to carry out two additive manufacturing (AM) projects to advance the future of propulsion…
Daring AM: Prepare to 3D Print in Space
NASA is laying the groundwork for the future of space 3D printing. Producing spacecraft, rocket components, advanced materials, and larger structures directly in orbit will revolutionize traditional off-Earth manufacturing. As…
CDFAM Symposium: Dedicated to Exploring Computational Design and Additive Manufacturing
CDFAM, a two-day symposium scheduled for June 14-15, 2023, promises to bring together leaders in the fields of Computational Design and Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) at the Newlab in…
Student 3D Prints NASA’s Fake Moon Dust to Test Feasibility of Lunar Construction
With Artemis missions closer to re-establishing a human presence on the Moon for the first time since 1972, NASA is hungry for innovative technologies to help moonwalkers explore the lunar…
ICON’s 3D Printed Habitat on Earth is NASA’s Stronghold for Mars Survival
Settling on Mars in the future means withstanding radiation levels, lack of oxygen, frozen water buried under polar ice caps, and cold weather plunging as far as -220 degrees Fahrenheit,…
UTEP Joins NASA Project to 3D Print Batteries in Space with Lunar Regolith
Hot on the heels of previous federal grants to develop space technologies, like mining water on the Moon, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has joined a project…
Daring AM: Fueling the 3D Printing Space Race
Go ahead and take a deep breath because it’s hard to keep up with all the news about 3D printing for space. Thirty years ago, NASA began using additive manufacturing…
Multi-Alloy and Multi-Process Additive Manufacturing for Rocket Engines – AMS Speaker Spotlight
In a harsh, unforgiving environment, abundant design decisions, complicated manufacturing, and component integration are necessary for hot-fire testing of liquid rocket engines. Knowing that things can go wrong in milliseconds,…
High School Students to Send Micro Metal 3D Printed Experiment to ISS
A team of students from Valley Christian High School in San José, California, will send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2023. As part of the…
SpaceX Aiming for a $137B Valuation with New Potential Funding Round
According to an exclusive report by CNBC, SpaceX is raising $750 million in a new funding round led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, which values…
AMS 2023 Brings 3D Printing Experts to NYC
The Additive Manufacturing Strategies live business and networking summit is just a month away. Taking place February 7-9, 2023, New York’s only 3D printing trade show is filled with exciting…
2023 3D Printing Predictions: Additive Manufacturing for Series Production of Metal Parts
As the 3D printing industry matures, we can see a stream of very positive developments unfold. Away from the hype and hubris, there has been true progress in getting parts…
NASA’s Breakthrough 2022: Artemis, 3D Printed Spacesuits and New Metal Alloys
With a dedicated multitude of followers worldwide and hundreds of thousands of people flocking to the Space Coast to see Artemis I launch on a 26-day mission around the Moon,…
L3Harris to Acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne in $4.7B Deal
Florida-based security technology provider L3Harris (NYSE: LHX) has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), a manufacturer of rocket engines and motors for the aerospace and defense industries. Expected to…
3DPOD Episode 133: Space 3D Printing with Paul Gradl, NASA Principal Engineer
In this week’s episode of the 3DPOD, we have Paul Gradl, a principal engineer in the Combustion Devices Design and Development Branch at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This is…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: NASA, ICON, MIT and Purdue
Purdue University makes a wet mixing technology that can make strain and temperature sensors out of Direct Write and FDM 3D printed parts. This could enable new functionality in 3D…
ICON Scores $57M from NASA for Moon 3D Printing
It’s been quite the year for additive construction developer ICON. The Austin-based tech company’s seamless integration of advanced construction technologies into homebuilding spearheads faster and more accurate construction of complex…
NASA Awards TROPICS CubeSat Mission to Rocket Lab
Spacecraft manufacturer Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has more big plans for the company as it expands its US presence. Known for its almost entirely 3D printed engines, the rocket company…
Hypersonic Engine with 3D Printed Parts Achieves Key Milestone in Hypersonic Flight
Hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus has set a new milestone as Chimera, its flagship turbine-based cycle engine, demonstrated it can successfully transition from turbojet to ramjet. Such a transition allows reusable…
NASA’s First Artemis Lunar Mission Blasts off with 3D Printed Parts
Deploying four solar arrays spanning about 63 feet, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on a path to the Moon after the Artemis I rocket blasted off on its test flight with…
Formlabs User Summit Features Hasbro, NASA, Mayo Clinic 3D Printing and More
Formlabs’ annual User Summit kicked off October 26th and 27th. The online event highlights power users who utilize Formlabs printers throughout many companies and organizations—including Peloton, OXO, Hasbro, Nasa—from across…
Relativity Space’s New Horizontal Stargate 3D Printer Featured 55X Build Volume
Designed to redefine rocket manufacturing, the latest iteration of Relativity Space‘s proprietary additive manufacturing platform is the largest in the world. The company estimates that its Stargate Fourth Generation metal…
Metal 3D Printing at IMTS 2022 with 6K Additive, AddUp, Fabrisonic, Formalloy, & Xact Metal
There was so much to do and see at IMTS in Chicago this year, with nine specific pavilions on topics like controls and CAD-CAM, quality assurance, metal removal, additive manufacturing,…
