The future of space travel is here! There are now commercially available 3D printed Rockets. The rockets are obviously not printed with regular plastic filament, they use a special alloy developed by NASA. They also don’t use just regular 3D printers, specialized printers. The printers are robotic arms, and then the part that they are printing is placed on a turntable in a high room. The rocket is assembled regularly, but the parts are completely 3D printed.
Relativity Space is a company that is spearheading 3D printed spacecraft. Their Terran R rocket is both 3D printed and reusable. It is designed for medium to heavy lift and has a capacity upwards of 50,000 pounds. They have begun producing rockets at full scale after their prototypes performed well. They are now offering customers satellite launches. Most notably their 3D printed rocket engines are performing excellently in testing.
Another company that is building or rather printing 3D printed rockets is Angikul Cosmos. Their 3D printed rockets are smaller then Relativity Space’s but, they are still really cool and more accessible to regular people. Using their 3D printed rockets, you could launch your own micro satellite.
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