A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...

Satellite antennas can be 3D-printed in space with the help of sunlight, using a new patented technique that promises to do away with clunky satellite parts that take up too much space in a rocket.

A national 3D printing initiative officially opened its inaugural satellite center Friday with a ribbon cutting at the University of Texas at El Paso's W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation. The ...

WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturers are turning increasingly to additive manufacturing to reduce the cost and time required to design and build spacecraft. Space Systems Loral announced March 7 that ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 18, 2017 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space systems segment, has said the future of satellite production will be driven by ...

The hardest thing about space is getting there. A 2016 estimate, using the SpaceX Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket, put the cost at $9,100 per pound. So the Pentagon is looking at ways to reduce ...

WASHINGTON — Boeing announced it has begun 3D printing the structural panels that form the backbone of satellite solar arrays, a step the aerospace giant says will cut production times in half and ...

3D Systems will produce and supply critical parts to Airbus Defence and Space for its new OneSat commercial satellite. The contract involves “an end-to-end, additive manufacturing solution” developed ...

JCSAT-110A (previously known as JCSAT-15) was the first SSL 1300 satellite to use a 3D-printed antenna tower design. Credit: SSL WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturers are turning increasingly to ...