NASA 3-D Prints Copper Rocket-Engine Liner

Credit: NASA/MSFC
MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Alabama—Engineers have built a copper rocket-engine combustion-chamber liner using additive manufacturing (AM), part of a NASA advanced-technology effort aimed at lowering the cost of upper-stage rocket engines. The Materials and Processing Laboratory here used a...

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