Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...

NASA’s latest generation of 3D printed rocket engines is not just a materials experiment, it is a direct assault on the cost structure that has defined spaceflight for decades. By combining advanced ...

Early Sunday morning, SpaceX mission CRS-4 lifted off from Cape Canaveral towards the International Space Station, carrying with it the first 3D printer that will operate in zero gravity. When the ...

Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, announced today that it received a $12.5 million contract from the Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) and ...

Agnikul Cosmos has developed a first-of-its-kind rocket engine that is 3D printed in a single structure, combining ...

Firehawk Aerospace test-fires a GMLRS-equivalent hybrid rocket engine from a purpose-built, mobile platform. (Firehawk Aerospace) Firehawk Aerospace recently conducted its first flight test of a ...

Agnikul Cosmos has successfully completed a 77-second test sequence of its 3D-printed Agnite engine in Chennai. This ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

Firehawk Aerospace, a 3D-printed rocket fuel manufacturer, will open its first U.S. factory in Lawton, Oklahoma. The $22 million investment is expected to create 100 jobs and produce large quantities ...

Rocket Lab is making innovative strides in space travel with the Neutron medium payload rocket – namely, it's the largest composite rocket ever made. Initially, hundreds of layers and thousands of ...

Specialty industries like space travel were particularly hard hit during the Covid pandemic, given the impossibility of heading down to the corner to pick up spare rocket parts. Industries began ...

The basic layout of a tubular hydraulic shock absorber has remained relatively unchanged for most of automotive history. And while modern units are far more capable and sophisticated than their ...