News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
In late April, NASA’s radiation researchers at Johnson began a multi-month BEAM radiation exp ...
The first COMAC C919 aircraft commenced its maiden flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport successfully on May 5th, 2017. According to Bright Laser Technologies (BLT) one of the metal 3D printer manufacturers that participated in the project, several 3D printed titanium parts were installed on COMAC’s C919 to reduce the aircraft’s weight and increase its safety. Twenty-eight cabin door parts and two fan inlet structural parts were also installed on the aircraft.
As a first test of a new printable hard, electrically conductive plastic, the ESA (Europ ...
Tresa Pollock, chair of the materials department at UC Santa Barbara, has received one of 13 prestigious 2017 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The award includes $3 million to fund five years of Pollock’s research, which is aimed at developing a 3-D platform for discovering new materials capable of […]
The current 3D printer OEM market leader Stratasys will be hosting a series of lunch sessions at the upcoming SAMPE 2017 in Seattle on Tuesday May 23, and Wednesday May 24, 2017. These sessions are designed to provide a roadmap for additive manufacturing technology implementation and to answer the questions posed by R&D departments and operations leaders.
In 2014, Made In Space (MIS) took the initial step in achieving this with the first manufacturing ...
As anticipated in our overview of the Rapid event in Pittsburgh, Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), a leader in advanced materials science and high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM) officially launched of nickel-plated OXFAB–Ni, offering 3D-printed PEKK-based parts that replace high performance aluminum alloys for aerospace and industrial applications.
With the recent launches of the Telkom 3S, SGDC and KOREASAT-7 satellites, plus satellites in the Iridium Next constellation, Thales Alenia Space has now sent into orbit 79 metal parts made by additive manufacturing (3D printing) and 350 polymer tube supports for chemical propulsion systems.