Year: 2015

NASA’s 3D printed rocket engine is a roaring success – next stop, Mars

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre have built and tested a rocket engine using 3D printed components. The engine, whose parts were 3D printed using a printing process known as selecting laser melting (SLM), fired into life last week with roaring success, producing a thrust so powerful it is reported to have shaken the …

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Metmachex Engineering Prints Swingarm and Billet Parts with the Zortrax M200

3D printing is fast-becoming a key tool in engineering circles, and we’ve recently seen some really great parts be printed using the Zortrax M200 3D printer by Dean Ryde of Metmachex Engineering. Metmachex Engineering are metal work experts. The company was founded in 1978 and it’s a brand synonymous with the design, development and manufacture …

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