New Space 3D Printing Rocket Engine Development Trends

The Blacklight Rocket Engine

Executive Summary This report summarizes the final project results for the period of May 1, 2002 through November 30, 2002 for the NIAC CP 01-02 Phase I study, "The BlackLight Rocket Engine". The objective of the Phase I study was to assess the potential of low pressure, mixed gas hydrogen plasmas (i.e. the BlackLight Process) toward the development of high performance space propulsion systems.

Development of Advanced Rocket Engine Technology for Precision Guided Missiles

The Army is developing hypergolic, liquid and gelled bipropellants for a small, selectable-thrust, liquid rocket engine (LRE) that can power tactical missiles for both current and future combat systems. The use of gel propellants brings the advantages of selectable thrust and the promise of small engine size but also introduces new challenges in combustion control. One of these challenges is th...

A review of recent trends and challenges in 3D printing

The recent developments in 3D printing also known as “Additive Manufacturing” or AM have revolutionized the modern manufacturing process and the engineering design process. Emerging use of 3D printing technology is prevalent in automotive, manufacturing, aerospace, pharmaceutical industry & healthcare, fashion, retail and sports. In this paper, the author propose to review the recent trends and...

Medical 3D printing: methods to standardize terminology and report trends

Background: Medical 3D printing is expanding exponentially, with tremendous potential yet to be realized in nearly all facets of medicine. Unfortunately, multiple informal subdomain-specific isolated terminological ‘silos’ where disparate terminology is used for similar concepts are also arising as rapidly. It is imperative to formalize the foundational terminology at this early stage to facili...

A Reusable Rocket Engine Intelligent Control