Sentences with phrase «reduced rocket part»

It boasts a process that has reduced rocket part count from around 100,000 to just 1,000, while also dropping labor and build time, using machine learning and even proprietary base materials to achieve these drastic reductions.

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A large part of making space travel affordable is reducing launch costs, hence SpaceX's steadfast efforts to develop reusable rockets.

The founders estimate that printing parts in space could reduce the structural mass of objects by at least 30 percent, because the objects would not need to survive Earth's gravity or the extreme G - forces of launching into orbit aboard a rocket.

Engineers have successfully hot - fire tested an RS - 25 rocket engine with a large 3 - D printed part for the first time, marking a key step toward reducing costs for future engines that power NASA's new heavy - lift rocket, the Space Launch System.