18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
... stage design. Coupled with significant economic savings gleaned from the additive layer-by-layer manufacturing production (3D printing) of the engine, Prometheus could cost just a tenth of what the current Ariane 5’s Vulcain 2 engine costs - that...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
... facilities that enable rapid mass production of its Electron launch vehicle as all of its main components are 3D-printed, which helps to cut both cost and time for manufacturing. On top of this, the company has a private...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
... times. The engine and associated turbo pumps are made by additive manufacturing in a single piece, the largest 3-D printed rocket engine in the world. SLM Solutions of Lubeck, Germany manufactures the rocket engine and its complex...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... celestial body when the cost of transporting materials into space is enormous? One company is offering a solution – 3D print your own infrastructure by melting moon dust with lasers to make it usable as building material. This ambitious project...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... be converted into usable metal alloys - material that could be used in other applications on the Moon. “Could they be 3D printed directly, for example, or would they require refining?” says ESA research fellow Alexandre Meurisse. “The precise...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
... holes in our Galaxy,” write Tominaga and colleagues in their research paper, which can be found on the pre-print arxiv database, meaning it has yet to be peer-reviewed by other scientists. It would even outweigh the heaviest of the...
