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A three-person student team from the University of Melbourne has hot-fired a 3D printed regeneratively cooled liquid bipropellant rocket engine at Race2Space in the UK, taking first place in the competition’s liquid oxygen (LOX) bipropellant category. CSIRO, which supported the build through its Lab 22 additive manufacturing center, says it is the first regeneratively cooled…

Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH has been certified to ISO 9001:2015 following an audit by TÜV SÜD in which no non-conformities were identified. The certificate, No. G951 26 0419, is valid from 24 July 2026 to 23 July 2029 and covers the company’s quality management for the additive manufacturing of technical ceramics. The audit is…

America Makes Tackles AM Qualification Bottlenecks for Defense

Additive manufacturing of thermoplastic composites using fused deposition modeling (FDM) offers unparalleled geometric freedom and the ability to tailor reinforcement through short and continuous fiber architectures. However, the process inherently introduces mesoscopic defects, including 15-20% inter and intra-bead voids, weak interlayer bonding, and microcracking, which degrade mechanical and t…

Vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing enables fabrication of highly complex geometries but remains underutilized for thermal and mass transfer applications because of limited functional printable materials and experimentally validated device designs. This dissertation advances the application of vat photopolymerization through the development of microencapsulated phase change material co…

GKN Aerospace and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney have signed a Technology Development Agreement to additively manufacture a large-scale engine case for the F135, the engine that powers the F-35 Lightning II. Announced at the Farnborough Air Show on 20 July 2026 and backed by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA), the program targets a first…

Additive Manufacturing Advantage: Aerospace, Space, and Defense 2026 is now live and in progress. Taking place online today, AMAA 2026 brings together leading voices from across aerospace, defense, space, advanced manufacturing, research, and industrial production to discuss how additive manufacturing is moving from promising technology into mission-critical applications. The free online event fe…

Farnborough International Airshow will bring the global aerospace, aviation, space, and defence industries to the UK from 20–24 July 2026. But before the sector gathers on the show floor, the additive manufacturing community has an opportunity to connect around one of the most important questions facing aerospace and defence manufacturing today: how does AM move…