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Solideon wants to decentralize rocket manufacturing through 3D printing


Nearly five years after COVID-19 ground the world to a halt, the global supply chain still hasn’t fully recovered. Specialty industries like space travel

He was employed as a propulsion engineer in the additive manufacturing division of Virgin Orbit in May 2020, when the company failed to launch its LauncherOne rocket. Image Credits: Solideon“What we really do is build robots for deployable microfactories that help 3D-print and assemble large aerospace structures and products,” says Taiwo. Taiwo notes that the U.S. Defense Department is currently in the process of auditing its own supply chain, in anticipation of further disruption — be it a natural disaster or global conflict.

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