Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace & Space

Additive manufacturing is a key issue for aerospace manufacturers. They see the technology as a way to meet key challenges of the sector including lightweighting of aircraft’s parts and the scarcity of certain materials.

Honeywell on the use of ceramic 3D printed molds to make turbine blades

In a recent conversation, Brian Baughman and Curtis Swift from Honeywell Aerospace, shared with 3D ADEPT Media that their team relied on ceramic 3D printing to create molds for casting. The engineering team has...

Wipro 3D and ISRO manufacture the PS4 3D printed rocket engine of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

Wipro 3D  a provider of 3D printing services, joins forces with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to manufacture a PS4 3D-printed rocket engine. The rocket engine powers the 4th stage of the Polar Satellite Launch...

UW–Madison engineers successfully 3D print RAM device units in zero gravity

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have taken a step toward in-space manufacturing of replacement electronic components by successfully 3D printing RAM device units in zero gravity for the first time. The group encountered a...

Isar Aerospace relies on the nebumind software to automatically identify defects of metal 3D printed parts

With thousands of layer images to analyze when searching for errors, it’s easy to miss a critical defect that will result in the non-validation of a part. The fact is the powder recoating conducted...

Orbital Matter to demonstrate 3D printing in orbit

Orbital Matter, a company based in Poland and Germany, ambitions to be one of the first companies to manufacture large elements of space infrastructure directly in orbit, on the Moon and Mars, reducing this...

Beyond LPBF: Honeywell on finding the right opportunity with Additive Manufacturing

With a decade of experience in Additive Manufacturing (AM), Honeywell has built a solid reputation as a major developer of commercial aerospace applications enabled by metal AM. Today, the company continues to explore new...

Aurora Labs fabricates metal 3D-printed parts for Australian gas turbines

Metal 3D printer manufacturer Aurora Labs is currently fabricating different models of micro gas turbines: the 200N Class gas turbine and the 400N Class model. A micro gas turbine is a combustion engine at the...

MIMO TECHNIK & ASTRO Test Lab to leverage Leap 71’s Computational Engineering Models for aerospace AM

MIMO TECHNIK, LEAP 71 and ASTRO Test Lab signed an agreement at AMUG to create an end-to-end workflow for the design, manufacturing, and validation of computationally engineered products primarily in aerospace. MIMO TECHNIK is a...

Additive Talks | New Space & AM: Current Applications driving industrialization & technological challenges

To kick-off season 4 of Additive Talks, we gathered Melissa Orme, Vice President for Additive Manufacturing at Boeing and William C. Haddad, Director, Additive Design and Manufacturing at Collins Aerospace, an RTX business around...

The iLAuNCH project team relies on AM of large-scale composite structures to build a rocket

To withstand the extreme loads, vibrations and shocks of launch without failure, it is of paramount importance that launch vehicles benefit from scalable production of low-weight and high-strength structures and parts. To meet this requirement,...

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