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 ...

Liquid fuelled engines are throttleable and monstrously powerful, but highly complex. Meanwhile, solid rocket engines are simple and cheap, but once you light them, they’re going full-bore until ...

There’s a startup in California with dreams of enhancing the future of space travel, and they have their very own Stargate. Not the teleportation portal from science fiction, of course. The Stargate ...

Relativity Space stage 1 3D-printed rocket being installed at Cape Canaveral, Fla. If this summer's Terran1 launch from Cape Canaveral is a success, Relativity Space will be the first aerospace ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has successfully 3D-printed a headcap for a rocket motor and put it in a highly explosive system. Precisely, it was used to detonate an M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC), a ...

Tim Ellis, an unassuming 31-year-old with glasses who shuffles around his sprawling rocket factory in designer sneakers, has what every space company founder longs for: a seemingly endless well of ...

For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labour, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot make for a jarring contrast. “That’s Keanu Reeves’ ...

Buying a 3D printer is exciting, but you'll need projects and models to make it all work. These free sites offer a huge range ...

Since the industrial revolution, although technology has greatly improved the average standard of living on Earth, the negative outcome of these improvements has led to an increase in pollution and ...

WASHINGTON — Propulsion firm Ursa Major announced a 3D printing-based approach to designing and manufacturing solid rocket motors it hopes will lead to faster and cheaper production. The strategy, ...