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Offline ipearse

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Print your own spacecraft...
« on: July 16, 2013, 01:43:48 PM »
I found this pretty impressive:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23313921

This 3-D printing idea seems to be expanding rapidly. I have to admit finding some of it pretty difficult to get my head round, but the list of applications seems to be getting longer and longer... amazing stuff.
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: Print your own spacecraft...
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2013, 02:30:28 PM »
It makes me wonder why United Technologies is selling Rocketdyne.  My guess is that building cheaper rockets it won't help revenue growth for UTX and that the technology is not all that Pratt and Whitney already has the technology at similarly advanced stage.
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