Posts in category: Aerospace

Maybe it’s because of the new contract that the DoD just awarded to SpaceX help get its Space Force satellites into orbit (and that will bring Elon Musk’s company $2 billion dollars). Maybe it’s just because SpaceX was among the first to understand the benefits of AM for end-use space parts. Either way, the company is now expanding AM activities and looking for new Additive Manufacturing Engineers, and for Process and Applications Development.

As the newest NASA Mars rover is off on the third mission this month to the Red Planet, you can bet lots of parts on the rover itself, and the vehicle taking it there, are 3D printed. So much so, in fact, that there was a full size replica of the Perseverance Rover at the launch site. That replica is also available to download as a 3D printable 3D model from NASA’s website.