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 ...
Explore the innovative collaboration between LEAP 71 and HBD in creating the largest 3D printed aerospike rocket engine.
LEAP 71 and metal additive manufacturing (AM) firm HBD have additively manufactured an aerospike rocket engine that can generate 20 tons (200 kN) of thrust. At one-metre in height, the partners ...