Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

Additive manufacturing leaders are focusing defense, helping the U.S. military move from 'futuristic visions' to ...

3D printing isn’t only about creating trinkets and toys — it can also help send humans into space. In a watershed move, NASA has successfully tested a rocket part created via 3D printer, a move that ...

Reducing the cost of space launches will be critical if we want humanity to have a more permanent presence beyond orbit. The partially successful launch of the first 3D-printed rocket could be a ...

Relativity Space, a Long Beach-based aerospace company, made history with the successful launch of the worlds first-ever 3D printed rocket out of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on ...

For a failed rocket launch, there sure was a lot of cheering. When Relativity Space, a California start-up that aims to compete against SpaceX, finally launched its Terran 1 rocket manufactured almost ...

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine ...

We average Joes might bask in the knowledge that our species is fairly advanced from a technological standpoint, and more than able to study the space surrounding our planet. But engineers working in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts made its launch debut Wednesday night, lifting off amid fanfare but failing three minutes into flight — far short of orbit.

Given his experience with additive manufacturing at SpaceX, Torre began thinking up a more modern solution upon leaving the rocket shop. Torre was granted a patent from the USPTO for his efforts, ...