Focus: 3D Printing
May 24, 2022
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced Tuesday that it has developed an additive manufacturing technology to 3D print satellite antennas in space. The novel technology uses a newly developed liquid resin with a low-power process that utilizes the sun’s ultraviolet rays for photopolymerization. “The 3D printer extrudes a liquid resin that hardens into a rigid solid when…
March 24, 2021
Nuvotronics, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has been awarded a contract worth more than $10 million to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) “5G to Next G” program, the company announced Wednesday. Under the contract, Cubic will develop a dual-band, ultra-high performance and low size, weight and power (SWaP) 5G Wireless Network Communications Transceiver…
March 12, 2021
Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has already begun revolutionizing various manufacturing sectors, and aerospace is inline to see a similar transformation in the coming years. The technology has been around for around two decades now, but the escalation of developments in recent years has been impressive. Only a decade ago, it was exclusively used…
February 26, 2021
Orbex has commissioned AMCM [Additive Manufacturing Customized Machines] to build what it says will be the largest industrial 3D printer in Europe to print rocket engines. The specific monetary value of the contract was not disclosed, but Orbex described it as a multi-million pound deal in a Feb. 24 announcement. The deal follows after a…