Australia boosts sovereign space manufacturing with UniSQ-backed 3D printed thruster
Australia has marked a milestone in domestic space manufacturing with the successful production of the nation’s first bimetal rocket thruster using multi-material 3D printing, under a program led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ).
The thruster, developed by Space Machines Company (SMC), was manufactured at CSIRO’s Lab22 facility using a Nikon SLM Solution SLM280 2MA metal printer.