{"id":6795,"date":"2024-06-18T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2024-06-18T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:57:47","slug":"indian-startup-agnikul-successfully-launched-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/indian-startup-agnikul-successfully-launched-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Startup Agnikul successfully launched worlds first fully 3D printed engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3D Printing is one of the few technologies from the last decade that has come close to accomplishing what it promised, some of the more Sci-fi style stuff is still in the works (Like 3D printing food) but for the most part it does what it promised unlike some of the other &#8216;ground-breaking&#8217; tech like blockchain, NFT etc. etc. Folks have used 3D printing to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/style\/worlds-largest-3d-printer-homes-maine-hnk-spc-intl\/index.html\">print houses<\/a>, sculptures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/patient-receives-a-fully-3-d-printed-eye-for-the-first-time-ever-142528877.html\">prosthetic eye<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>On 30th May another major milestone was achieved proving the technology&#8217;s usefulness. An Indian Company called <a href=\"https:\/\/agnikul.in\/#\/\">Agnikul<\/a> tested its 3D printed Rocket by successfully launching it from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. The launch was a test of the engine block which was the world\u2019s first rocket engine 3D printed as a single piece. The engine took just 72 hours to print and another two weeks to integrate with other systems. The rocket generated 6 kilonewtons of thrust during the test and flew 6.5 Kms into the air. <\/p>\n<p>Now that the technology has been proven, the company is starting work on their commercial implementation of the engine called <em>Agnibaan<\/em> (Fire Arrow). <em>Agnibaan<\/em> will feature eight rockets and will be capable of carrying a 300-kilogram payload to an altitude of around 700 km. The configuration of the rocket will be modular allowing the team to configure it according to need. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to being the worlds first 3D printed engine, Agnibaan was also India&#8217;s first launch from a privately owned launch pad. Thus far, all space launches were carried out from one of the two ISRO launch pads at Sriharikota. Agniaan on the other hand launched from a custom built launch pad called <em>Dhanush<\/em> (Bow). Dhanush is designed to support full mobility across all configurations of Agnibaan and is meant to be reusable.<\/p>\n<p>With more private companies entering the market the Space Age has truly started in India. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/3d-printed-rocket'>IEEE: Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours <\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D Printing is one of the few technologies from the last decade that has come close to accomplishing what it promised, some of the more Sci-fi style stuff is still in the works (Like 3D printing food) but for the most part it does what it promised unlike some of the other &#8216;ground-breaking&#8217; tech like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,40,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-emerging-tech","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}