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NASA 3D Prints Lighter and More Powerful Rotating Detonating Engine

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recorded ignition of a full-scale Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine combustor, which was fired for a record 251 seconds and achieved more ...
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3D Models Of Objects In Space Released By NASA's Chandra Team

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory team has released several 3D models of celestial onbjects that you can print. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
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How NASA Will 3D Print Houses On The Moon?

NASA is preparing to 3D print lunar habitats, using advanced robotic construction and lunar soil to build structures that can withstand the Moon’s harsh environment. Instead of launching construction ...
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Video: NASA is Going to 3D Print in Space and This is How They'll Do it

NASA has plans to 3D print in space aboard the International Space Station next year, and now they're showing us how they'll make it happen. In this new video, NASA astronauts take us through how 3D ...
CBS News

Texas company 3D printing houses on Earth, partnering with NASA to 3D print infrastructure on the moon

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 8, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. There was a time when futurists were predicting that the advent of 3D printing was going ...
ExtremeTech

NASA 3D prints rocket parts -- with steel, not plastic

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has 3D printed nickel alloy rocket engine parts using a fabrication technique called selective laser melting, or SLM. The part will be used ...
American Machinist

NASA Adopts 3DP for Rocket Engine Nozzles

Collaborating with material and AM developers, the space agency applied a new aluminum alloy and laser powder directed-energy deposition to produce a large-scale rocket engine nozzle with integral ...
techtimes

NASA's Artemis Astronauts May 3D Print Batteries for Future Lunar Missions

NASA is leading a project to explore the feasibility of using 3D printing processes for manufacturing rechargeable batteries on the moon and Mars. The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has joined ...
ExtremeTech

NASA 3D Prints First Rocket Part Composed of Two Metals

Advances in 3D printing have been slow to replace traditional manufacturing, but NASA is looking toward the technology as a way to fabricate parts for rockets. It's already experimented with rocket ...
SpaceNews

Researchers 3D Print Moon Rover Wheel Prototype With NASA

In just a few days, ORNL researchers used powder bed printing to create this lunar rover wheel based on a NASA design. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in ...
Nanowerk

Researchers 3D print moon rover wheel prototype with NASA

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA, are taking additive manufacturing to the final frontier by 3D printing the same ...