NASA tests 3D printed RAMFIRE rocket engine nozzle

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine ...
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How 3D printing is reinventing rocket design and flight

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...
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Students test-fire new 3D-printed rocket engine

Students from the San Diego chapter of the University of California test-fire a new 3D-printed engine, making UC San Diego the very first university to “additively manufacture” a rocket engine. The ...
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America's First Liquid Hydrogen Rocket Engine Is Now Partially 3D Printed

With an avalanche of private space companies upon us, the number of engines meant to carry rockets and their cargo into space has grown rapidly over the past few years. This world is now dominated by ...
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Ursa Major wins $4 million for 3D-printed rocket engines

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Ursa Major has landed a follow ...
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Firehawk Aerospace demonstrates 3D-printed hybrid rocket motor

Firehawk Aerospace test-fires a GMLRS-equivalent hybrid rocket engine from a purpose-built, mobile platform. (Firehawk Aerospace) Firehawk Aerospace recently conducted its first flight test of a ...
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Northern Colorado company wins $4 million for 3D-printed rocket engines

BERTHOUD, Colo. — Ursa Major, a Colorado-based rocket propulsion startup said Monday it has landed a follow-on contract award from America Makes to qualify its copper additive manufacturing process ...
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Hypersonix sets launch window for 3D printed engine-propelled hypersonic craft

Hypersonix Launch Systems has scheduled a late February launch window for a test flight of its scramjet-powered hypersonic aircraft, DART AE.
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New Agreement with NASA Puts Relativity Space on Path to Operate One of America’s Largest Rocket Engine Test Facilities

Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today detailed its plans to operate one of the largest rocket engine test facilities in ...
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This Company Wants To Use AI To Mass-Produce Rocket Engines

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...

Rocket science? 3D printing soft matter in zero gravity

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...