Battery Case First 3-D-printed Component Goddard Has Flown (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Battery Case First 3-D-printed Component Goddard Has Flown

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This battery case, created with a material called Polyetherketoneketone, is the first 3-D-printed component Goddard has flown. Developed under a university-industry partnership, the part was demonstrated during a sounding-rocket mission testing a thermal-control device developed with R&D funding.

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