September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... services including close inspections, inclination reductions and orbital relocations In addition, iSAM techniques, including robotic assembly and additive manufacturing, offer the promise of more mass-efficient structures than the current state...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... be sunshades assembled on-orbit from Earth-launched components. Then, Earth-launched membranes could be installed on trusses additively-manufactured in space; these structures can be arbitrarily large since they will not have to fit inside a launch...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... limited or restricted by environmental legislation. Topics that are being worked on include green propellants and Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D-printing. ESA is creating a handbook on the application of LCA to the space sector...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... kerosene propellants and produces a thrust of 30 kilonewtons (kN). The four main engine components have been built by additive manufacturing (metal 3D printing), which was then followed by final machining and assembly. The SK-1 will be fully capable...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... Observatory Edinburgh. At the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus in Cheshire businesses are capitalising on STFC’s purpose-built additive manufacturing facility to progress their business ideas with support from the ESA BIC UK. STFC recognises that early...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... a thrust of 88.9 kN and has a specific impulse of 3800 s. According to SES, its heat exchanger solution – built using additive manufacturing techniques [see photo] - is unique and compatible with both high temperatures and cryogenic coolants; it can...
