Dr. Greg Hayes on the 3D printed future of space flight.
With the recent success of Boeing’s Starliner space vehicle and Vulcan Centaur rocket, the race is on for low cost commercial access to low Earth orbit. Lower profile but just as important, there is a new generation of fast reaction, small sat boosters available from multiple corporations launching from the Americas, Europe, Asia and even New Zealand.
Weight is always critical in aerospace structures, but it’s especially important in spacecraft, and the combination of lower costs and more players means that aerospace structures for these applications must be faster, stronger, lighter, and critically, cheaper.
Dr. Greg Hayes, Senior Vice President of applied technology at EOS, describes the state-of-the-art in conversation with Jim Anderton.
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