Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work
New Zealand-born inventor Peter Beck has a dream: 3-D printing rocket engines and putting a new satellite into orbit each week.
An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components. The Rocket Lab's new Rutherford engine, formally announced on April 14 at Colorado's Space Symposium, is built out of carbon-based materials instead of metals, and will allow satellites to be launched for $5 million a pop—less than 1/40th the price of the average rocket launch.
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