An almost fully 3D-printed rocket has taken ... taken over to complete the journey to orbit but, after a few flickers, it died. The upper part of the rocket would have come down in the Atlantic ...

He had an a great idea – is it possible to 3D print a solid fuelled rocket, (video, embedded below) specifically can you 3D print the rocket grain itself? By using the resin as a fuel and mixing ...

The accomplishment "paves the way for long-distance and long-duration missions where creating spare parts, construction ...

This is not the greatest news for 3D printing, as it confirms the infeasibility of fully 3D printed rocketry, at least with ...

Four years later, US-based Relativity Space successfully launched an “almost entirely 3D printed" rocket called Terran 1, though it failed to reach orbit. In India, ISRO successfully tested a 3D ...

On only their second attempt, Rocket Lab had become the latest private company to put a payload into orbit. An impressive ... s ten Rutherford engines is 3D printed via electron-beam melting ...

Today was supposed to be a momentous day for Spain, with the European country launching its first optical imaging satellite into orbit ... year in June, the rocket failed during the launch ...

Rocket company Skyrora has started testing a new 3D-printed engine as it works towards its first commercial orbital launch. The firm said it was carrying out "full duration" tests on an updated ...

China said a pair of its technology test satellites failed to reach a planned orbit on ... was successfully placed into low Earth orbit by a Jielong 3 rocket last month – to test laser-based ...

The rocket has nine Aeon engines in its first stage and one Aeon Vac in the second stage. The current Terran 1 vehicle is 85% 3D printed by mass, however, the company aims to reach 95% in the future.

The rocket was fueled with methalox, a composite liquid fuel of methane and oxygen. Several US companies are focusing on developing methalox-fueled rockets, but all have failed to reach orbit.

The program, however, was canceled in 2001 due to technical difficulties, adding to a list of similar projects that have failed to materialize ... system — a rocket-powered sled. To be able to escape ...