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Aerospace

Lockheed Martin, Sintavia Team Up to Advance Metal Additive Manufacturing

The collaboration is said to demonstrate Lockheed Martin’s commitment to the White House’s AM Forward initiative for expanding use of additive manufacturing and creating resilient supply chains.

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Supply Chain

3D Printed Replacement Clamp for an F-16 Aircraft: The Cool Parts Show #54

3D printing is a valuable addition to sustainment programs, but only if printed parts can be qualified as fast and flexibly as they can be made. In this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we look at the clamp that won the Air Force’s Approval Sprint Challenge designed to address this need. 

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Space

Sintavia Develops Niobium Printing Technology for Aerospace, Defense

C103 material parameter specification is said to enable full alloy adoption across defense and space applications.

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Repair

Video: Additive Manufacturing for Aircraft Blade Repair

Optomec machines use directed energy deposition guided by optical measurement and automatic programming to repair aircraft engine blades. Here is a look at the 3D printing repair operation.

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Composites

9T Labs, Purdue Partner to Advance Composite Use in Structural Aerospace Applications

The collaboration is working to define a new composite manufacturing standard that enables users to produce structural composite parts as easily as metal parts.

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Metal

Artemis I Has Launched: 3D Printing Applications for This Space Mission and Beyond: AM Radio #25B

On this episode of AM Radio, we discuss how additive manufacturing is enabling a new era of space exploration.

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Machining

Aircraft Engine MRO: How Additive Manufacturing Plus Robotic Finishing Will Expand Capacity for Blade Repair

AM offers the chance to bring fast, automated processing to individualized, part-by-part restoration of turbomachinery. A cell developed by Acme Manufacturing and Optomec is able to automatically repair 85,000 unique aircraft engine blades per year.

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Defense Department Looks to Additive Manufacturing to Propel Hypersonic Systems

The DoD is requesting prototype solutions for its Growing Additive Manufacturing Maturity for Airbreathing Hypersonics (GAMMA-H) challenge as part of the department’s ongoing efforts to expand manufacturing processes for intricate hypersonic weapons parts.

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Polymer

3 Points About 3D Printing Large Parts We Can Learn From the Lunar Habitat (Video)

Ingersoll Machine Tools describes the capabilities and promise of large-scale additive manufacturing as seen in the 3D printed sections of the Rosenberg Space Habitat.

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Space

Launcher Uses Additive Manufacturing to Optimize Satellite Design

Launcher depends on Velo3D to 3D print complex rocket compounds for low-cost, small satellite delivery systems.

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