Implementing DED represents a key development in metal 3D printing abilities. Unlike historical manufacturing techniques or commonplace powder bed fusion processes, DED technology enables the ...

Research breakthrough paves the way for future space-based 3D printing factories Researchers at the University of Glasgow are ...

[Sam Rogers] and colleagues at [AX Technologies] have been testing and developing a small liquid-fueled rocket engine and successfully used vortex cooling to protect a resin 3D printed combustion ...

These granules are quickly and reliably drawn to the printer’s feedstock tank and then to the nozzle. Baliet’s 3D ... and not for the constraints of rocket launches,” said Baliet. Another benefit of ...

The 3D printing process has previously been used to manufacture a variety of aircraft parts, including rocket nozzles and fighter jet support frames.

The result was a 3D-printed turbopump for ... combustion chamber pressures in his rocket design. More work is required to up this figure. Paired with a nozzle and ignition source, though, and ...

German aerospace start-up POLARIS Spaceplanes, based in Bremen, has achieved a key milestone by successfully testing a 3D printed Aerospike rocket ... alternative to traditional rocket engines with ...