Putting payloads into model rockets can be more complex than simply shoving stuff into an open spot, so [concretedog] put some work into making a modular payload tube for his current rocket. The nose ...

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 ...

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 ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA), the company that makes rockets for NASA and the U.S. Air Force, plans to 3D print more than 100 flight-ready components for its next-gen model of rocket. That rocket, the ...

I've always been fascinated by 3D printers but I've never known what I would do with one. When Shenzhen-based firm Elegoo offered to send their $350/£300/€350 Neptune 4 Plus for review, I figured I'd ...

3D printing intricate designs can take quite some time on both a resin or filament 3D printer, however Hitry has created the world’s fastest top-down resin 3D printer aptly named the Rocket 1.

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, ...

Here's the million-dollar question: Will 3D printing be the game changer journalists like me are so eager to dub it, or is it a niche technology that's destined to become even less relevant as ...