Collaborating with material and AM developers, the space agency applied a new aluminum alloy and laser powder directed-energy deposition to produce a large-scale rocket engine nozzle with integral ...

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine nozzle at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. See the test in ...

Built with lightweight composite material, nozzle extensions will lower costs, improve performance, and accelerate rocket engine production CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...

In order to be able to carry heavier payloads through deep space, NASA designed a lightweight rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum that can still withstand the heat of launches. NASA recently tested ...

The RAMFIRE nozzle performs a hot fire test at Marshall's East test area stand 115. The nozzle, made of the novel aluminum alloy 6061-RAM2, experiences huge temperature gradients. As hot gasses ...

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine ...

Sending rockets to the Moon, Mars, and beyond with humans on board boils down to essentially one thing: being capable of sending with them enough supplies to ensure survival. And that can only be done ...

A second-stage rocket nozzle extension would be fixed and is intended to improve performance and reduce costs. Credit: Firefly The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Firefly Aerospace a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An overheated ...

This image provided by Blue Origin shows the New Shepard rocket launching from West Texas on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Jeff Bezos' space company launched the rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a nozzle from the One-Stick ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a Plug Nozzle, a unique ...