China satellite component manufacturing for the first time with titanium 3D print molding

September 25, 2015, the use of solid fuel engine of China's new carrier rocket Long March 11th successful launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, this is the first flight of the Long March 11th, so that our country has the ability to quickly launch satellites. The launch is equipped with Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology developed by Shanghai Pujiang I satellite and micro-satellite developed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Center HKUST II satellite and other four small satellites.
Satellite owned by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Shanghai Academy of Space Research of eight developed techniques to achieve quick and easy for the user customized information services, press the "Internet +" requirements, can be widely used electromagnetic environmental monitoring, land resources census, emergency rescue and other fields.
With the continuous development of information technology, the demand for space information integration applications increasingly strong. "Along the way" corridors proposed spatial information, but also for domestic emerging commercial satellite market provides unlimited space. Development of technology to simplify the process and shorten the development cycle, the development of low cost, high reliability, to meet the needs of small multi-mission satellite constellation, satellite technology has become an important direction for future development.
The use of the Internet concept, 3D printing for the first time on satellite applications
Intelligent Manufacturing is the current hot topic, but also on domestic satellite application of 3D printing technology, the antenna support use of titanium material 3D printing forming solution. And this is not to jump on the bandwagon, but for rapid development of the satellite, lower demand costs. The original production of a stent requires four month production cycle, the use of 3D printing, requiring only three days time --1 days to complete printing molding, two days to carry out performance testing and inspection. "3D printing scaffold stent performance of the performance indicators and the traditional machine manufacturing fairly, fully meet the design requirements."

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