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 ...
This is not the greatest news for 3D printing, as it confirms the infeasibility of fully 3D printed rocketry, at least with ...
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 ...
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 ...
US company Radian Aerospace is attempting to build a “single stage to orbit” vehicle, launched from a sled. But can it be done?
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 ...
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.
Japan’s new and lower-cost flagship H-3 rocket delivered its ... Daichi-4 was sent into orbit following the third launch of the H-3. The first launch failed, but the second one succeeded.
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.