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Air Force Optimistic About 3D Printing Capabilities For Satellites

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--A key Air Force officer is optimistic about the potential capabilities derived from creating satellites via additive manufacturing, better known as three-dimensional (3D) printing.“If the right engineering, analysis and testing (are) done…I am a very big fan of additive manufacturing,” Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski told sister publication Defense Daily April 17 at the National Space Symposium (NSS). “We just have to make sure that we do the good homework...in validating…

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