Over a Dozen US Additive Manufacturing Proposals will Receive NASA’s SBIR and STTR Awards
NASA is looking to develop technologies that will break boundaries in space, such as pilotless aircraft or solar panels, that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars. During…
Aluminum-Tin Ink May Be Used for 3D Printing Replacement Parts on the ISS
Authors Z.S. Courtright and C.W. Hill of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center explore the uses of a very specific metallic ink in ‘Optimization of Aluminum-Tin Ink Composition and Sintering in…
NASA Stennis Space Center: Relativity to Expand Testing Facilities & Begin 3D Printing Robots
“Rockets built and flown in days instead of years” – Relativity, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA NASA continues to embrace 3D printing, but that is nothing new; in fact, they…
Penn State Creates a Breakthrough 3D Printing Technology for the NASA Housing Challenge
In 2017, just a few months before his death, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said humanity only has about 100 years to escape Earth. Even though we have seen the signs…
NASA MSFC Materials & Process Development Offers Plan for New 3D Printing Materials & Hardware to Sustain Astronauts During Missions
Not surprisingly, NASA is working on new developments for space travel—partnering with Auburn University to create new sensing technology, materials for 3D printing in space, as well as new hardware…
Made in Space Developing Interferometer, Collaborating with Lowell Observatory On In Space Manufacturing
Tipping point technology continues to expand via the NASA/Made in Space collaboration resulting in the Archinaut. And as this project geared up several years ago, few of us probably realized…
Auburn University Receives NASA Contract to Develop 3D Printing Techniques to Improve Liquid Rocket Engines
Back in 2015, Auburn University and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement for the purposes of exploring and advancing additive manufacturing applications and research together. The university has remained committed to 3D printing, and…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Acquires Daytona Beach-Headquartered 3D Material Technologies
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings has not slowed down a bit regarding their uses for 3D printing technology, and now they will have even greater resources as they acquire 3D Material Technologies…
Tethers Unlimited Recycler and 3D Printer Refabricator Operational on Board the ISS
Space manufacturing start-up Tethers Unlimited has had a tumultuous time of late. The firm which aims to develop in space manufacturing technologies and has successfully seen its Refabricator put in use…
