News 3D printing news.

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...eships-using-3d-printing-technologies-135838/

Made In Space, the California-based pioneers of off-world 3D printers, plans to use 3D printing to turn asteroids into autonomous spacecrafts that can potentially fly to mining stations in outer space.

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...138001/?goal=0_695d5c73dc-35c12d2e51-64543285

Fabrisonic used Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM), an additive manufacturing and subtractive technique, to build a heat exchanger, a device designed to control and regulate the temperature of an interplanetary vehicle’s electronic system.

Nice explanation of the workflow. Interesting they can embed sensors in the construction.

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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/S...hard_tough_testing_for_3D-printed_metal_parts

21 August 2018
3D-printed metal parts produced through a Europe-wide collaboration of high-performance industrial sectors have undergone extensive testing for space use – tested to destruction in many cases – by ESA’s specialist advanced manufacturing lab in the UK.

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...-rocket-turbines-on-prometheus-engine-139344/

GKN Aerospace, a global engineering firm based in Worcestershire, UK has received a contract from Ariane Group, a joint venture of multinational aerospace companies Airbus and Safran, to develop and additively manufacture two full-scale turbines.
The turbines will be integrated into a low-cost reusable rocket engine, named Prometheus, which will use liquid oxygen-methane propellants “to power Europe’s future [space] launchers.”

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...139708/?goal=0_695d5c73dc-289b672424-64543285

Engineers from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), an echelon of the U.S. Navy based in California, have used 3D printing to restore an important an AN/TRC-194 antenna.
This antenna uses an azimuth drive, a configuration used to rotate the whole antenna around a vertical axis, to deliver real-time communications throughout naval combat operations.

Best use of 3D printing so far:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Ar...tooth/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/k-amug-presents-3d-printed-airless-bike-tire-139988/

ased in Ulsan, South Korea, the Korean Additive Manufacturing User Group (K-AMUG) is a developer of 3D printing materials, equipment, manufacturing processes and service-related technologies. It’s latest project, a 3D printed lightweight, airless tire, has been displayed at Techfesta 3D printing expo in Ulsan, and presents the possibilities of future sports product design.

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...140140/?goal=0_695d5c73dc-f76254ac1c-64543285

A 3D printed burner inside a Siemens SGT-700 gas turbine has reported one full year of operation. Installed at an E.ON combined cycle power plant in Hesse, Germany, the burner inside the turbine has been running for over 8,000 hours and shows no signs of slowing down.

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...3d-printer-capable-of-repairing-roads-141242/

Researchers from University College London (UCL) have created an asphalt 3D printer designed to repair cracks and potholes in roads.
“The material properties of 3D printed asphalt are tunable, and combined with the flexibility and efficiency of the printing platform, this technique offers a compelling new design approach to the maintenance of infrastructure,” the researchers stated in a paper entitled “3D Printing of Asphalt and its effect on Mechanical Properties.”

 

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https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...oject-moving-forward-with-3d-printing-141441/

Didn't know Aerojet/Rocketdyne were working on this, Reaction Engines gets a mention.
Not sure if that is good or not.

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[Urwumpe]

Could maybe be a bit excessive to 3D print the fills, instead of just injecting it more precise so that less needs to be removed

 

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Global consumer electronics company Apple Inc. has been granted a patent for what the company hopes will allow the development of faster 3D printers.
Giving the .stl backronym “Standard Triangle Language” a whole new meaning, the patent experiments with an alternate deposition technique called “triangular tesellation.”

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/apple-granted-patent-for-faster-3d-printers-142037/

 

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Researchers from ETH Zurich have collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects to create a curved shell concrete pavilion using a 3D knitted formwork.
The four meters tall, five-tonne concrete structure, called KnitCandela, integrates over two miles of 3D printed yarn into four strips of between 15 and 26 meters supported by a steel cable-net, demonstrating cost and time effective construction.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...chitects-develop-3d-knitted-pavillion-142598/

Its clever, not sure if its art though?
And why Candela? Last time I looke it was a unit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candela

Paying homage to the influential Spanish-Mexican architect, Félix Candela,
Understood

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Stumbled across this on YouTube tonight... pretty clever, imo.

 

[Notebook]

Fascinating! I like the printed sieve. and the 'sag-compensator". I see he has the tug-boat model, seems to be a must-do in printer land.

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[Yuri_Gagarin]

A 3d soyuz capsule. Lifesize, capable of going in and pressing the buttons.

 

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he European Space Agency (ESA) has made new advances in its quest to 3D print in space using in-situ materials.
In a partnership with Austrian ceramic 3D printing specialist Lithoz, ESA has demonstrated the ability to produce highly detailed spare parts, like screws and gears, from a lunar regolith simulant.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...-steps-toward-3d-printing-on-the-moon-143730/

 

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SPARK, an architectural studio based in Singapore, Shanghai, and London, is developing a transportable 3D printed toilet module to combat open defecation in India.
The United Nations (UN) initiative, World Toilet day, which took place this Monday, internationally observes and aims to tackle the sanitation crisis. According to the U.N., 4.5 billion people live without “safely managed sanitation” and approximately 892 million people practice open defecation.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...ans-to-wipe-away-human-waste-in-india-144229/

 

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Micro 3D printing mined for future 5G mobile connections

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/micro-3d-printing-mined-for-future-5g-mobile-connections-145165/

...for use in terahertz (“tremendously high frequency”) communications.

Hope they are having a joke here, Terahertz is a valid unit.

 

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Working with Professor Kokichi Sugihara, mathematician and master of illusion, Swiss micro 3D printing company Cytosurge has realized a class of so-called “impossible objects” in 3D.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news...lizes-new-class-of-impossible-objects-145798/

 

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