NASA uses 3d printing for their next move on Mars
With yesterdays success of NASA’s daring Curiosity landing, we’re one step closer to putting actual humans on this dessert planet. Therefore NASA engineers are testing a next-generation rover designed...
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3D printing a spaceship in space!
Imagine a spacecraft that could build itself by scavenging materials from space junk or asteroids. The “SpiderFab” project from Tethers Unlimited Inc. just received $100,000 from NASA’s Innovative...
View ArticleBoeing embraces the 3D printing technology
In our article World’s biggest and fastest 3D printer in the making you can read about Airbus taking a lot of interest in the 3D printing technology. But they are not the only aviation giant looking at...
View ArticleBastian Schaefer Talks About The Future of 3D Printed Aviation
A while back we wrote an article about Airbus and its focus on a 3D printed aviation future. The ideas were astonishing and seemed limitless. Now I stumbled upon a Tedtalk of Bastian Schaefer, who runs...
View ArticleScientists 3D Printed Two Jet Engines
It the beginning of the 3D printing ‘hype’ it was all about printing funny looking phone cases and jewelry, but as time passes, the technique – which, by the way, exists since the 1980’s – evolves....
View ArticleBoeing wants to patent 3d printing of aircraft parts!
Boeing applied for a patent and the documentation was recently published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) showing it is patent application for 3d printing of aircraft parts and that they...
View ArticleChina Eastern Airlines 3D Prints Aircraft Parts
Since the application of a unique patent from Boeing to 3D Print aircraft parts, a number of airlines have been trying to employ 3d printing technology to replace the old-fashioned manufacturing...
View ArticleThe World’s First 3D Printed Copper Rocket Engine Parts developed by NASA
NASA has started to 3D Print a combustion chamber liner using selective laser melting 3D printers which is expected to operate at extreme temperatures. A material called GRCo-84, a copper alloy...
View ArticleGE Aviation gets FAA Certification for First 3D Printed Jet Engine Part
A few weeks ago General Electric announced that the FAA (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) cleared their first 3D printed part to fly. The fist-sized T25 housing for a compressor inlet temperature...
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