Aerospace & Defense

We’ve seen plenty of 3D printed rocket engines in recent years. In 2025 alone, New Frontier Aerospace successfully tested one, while POLARIS Spaceplanes trialed a 3D printed aerospike engine. Other major players, from Relativity Space to Launcher and Orbex, are…

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has recently announced a significant expansion of its current secure digital “Component Library,” a platform that now offers more than 170 domestically produced parts and manufacturing services, including advanced 3D printing capabilities. The initiative is…

The Indiana Army National Guard has achieved a technological first by successfully demonstrating 3D printing aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. This marks a considerable milestone in military innovation, showcasing the shift towards additive manufacturing within the defense sector. The…

Firehawk Aerospace, a defense company specializing in advanced energetics and propulsion, has just secured investment from Presto Tech Horizons (PTH), a defense and resilience tech fund created through a partnership between European venture capital firm Presto Ventures and global industrial…

Crest Robotics, in partnership with Earthbuilt Technology, has unveiled a six-legged robot named Charlotte that could transform both housing on Earth and future construction in space. The spider-like machine is essentially a mobile 3D printer, designed to build a full…

The Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA), located in Yekaterinburg, Russia, has been utilizing some of Russia’s largest industrial 3D printers to support the production of new aircraft. These include the Baikal LMS-90, a small utility aircraft, the UTS-800 trainer, and…

In this week’s 3DExpress, we are covering some positive industry news: first, Boeing reports that it is using 3D printing to create solar array substrates—a decision that will cut production time in half. Second, we touch on ORNL’s new research…

Rosotics, a large-scale metal additive manufacturing company, announced last week that it has entered the fabrication and testing stage of a federal contract awarded by Fluor Marine Propulsion (FMP), LLC at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, under the U.S. Department…

Space has always fascinated humanity, and the colonization of Mars and the Moon remains a major goal. To achieve this, it is necessary to process local resources under the conditions present there. 3D printing shows impressive potential in this area,…

In late August, NASA and SpaceX launched the 33rd commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, carried out with the reliable Dragon capsule, transported not only the usual supplies but also a wide range of innovative…

Don Bosco University in El Salvador has unveiled a project that puts 3D printing in the spotlight. Through the Micro Macro Observatory (OMM), the university presented the Zuyat mission, a project that successfully launched the country’s first stratospheric probe. The…

This is good news for additive manufacturing in aerospace! The Honeywell group, leading a consortium comprising 3T Additive Manufacturing, BeyondMath, Qdot Technology, and the Oxford Thermofluids Institute, has just announced that it has received £14.1 million in funding from the…