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This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/app112412036

Additive manufacturing (AM), also called 3D printing, belongs to the emerging technologies of our time. After being used for rapid prototyping at the beginning, current rapid production is enabled for many applications due to increasingly improved technologies. One of the areas inh which additive manufacturing offers many advantages compared to conventional manufacturing techniques is space exploration, especially producing parts of satellites and rockets.

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1. Introduction

While the technologies of fused deposition modeling (FDM) or stereolithography (SLA) are most often used in the low-cost sector to print 3D shapes from diverse polymers [1], technologies such as selective laser melting (SLM), selective laser sintering (SLS), electron beam melting (EBM), and direct energy deposition (DED) can even be used to form metal products [2].
Besides fast production without the necessity to prepare a time- and cost-intensive injection mold beforehand, additive manufacturing has the advantages of allowing preparation of nearly unlimited shapes, including diverse forms which could not be produced by common techniques such as injection molding, and thus of building lighter and nevertheless stable objects [3][4]. On the other hand, the mechanical properties of the 3D printed objects may be reduced in comparison with other manufacturing methods due to layerwise production, and residual stress and deformation may cause problems in the application of additively manufactured parts [5][6].
While these aforementioned problems must be overcome by careful process engineering, additive manufacturing is especially interesting for aerospace applications where fast development and mass reduction are of high importance [7]. Another reason why additive manufacturing is important for space applications, e.g., of satellite and rocket parts, is the possibility to prepare custom-made objects at a high speed of production, without the necessity to prepare expensive molds beforehand. This article thus gives, after a brief introduction of the most common metal additive manufacturing methods, an overview of possible applications of metal AM for modern aeronautics, as they are investigated in recent research studies and already applied. Finally, it summarizes the remaining challenges and indicates possible future applications.

2. Metal Additive Manufacturing Techniques

While polymer 3D printing usually works by placing a molten filament on the desired positions or polymerizing a liquid resin at defined places, metal additive manufacturing is usually based on metal powders or even metal wires. Typical materials used for metal AM include aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, or cobalt chrome [8]. According to ASTM standard F2792 [9], metal AM processes can be subdivided into powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition.
Powder bed fusion processes generally include a powder bed in which energy is deposited at defined positions to either melt or sinter the metal powder by a laser or an electron beam. As an example, Figure 1 depicts the process of selective electron beam melting (SEBM) [10]. The four-step process starts with the application of a powder layer, which is heated, molten, until the layer is fully produced, and the platform can be lowered to enable application of the next powder layer.
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Figure 1. Selective electron beam melting process. Left: Process chamber. Right: 4-step process for building one layer. From [10], originally published under a CC-BY license.
It must be mentioned that the process works in “controlled vacuum”, i.e., the chamber is pumped to approximately 10−4 to 10−5 mbar before helium is inserted to reach a low pressure of about 10−3 mbar, to prevent electrostatic charging [10]. Electrons are emitted from a tungsten filament or a LaB6 cathode and, as in scanning electron microscopy, are accelerated and focused using electromagnetic lenses [11]. The object is built in layers of typical thicknesses between 0.05 and 0.15 mm. Generally, a new powder layer is preheated to temperatures between 300 and 1100 °C for different metals to start sintering, e.g., to around 400 °C for pure copper and 900–1100 °C for Ti–48Al–2Cr–2Nb powder [12][13], in this way increasing the electrical conductivity and thus avoiding repulsion of charged powder particles [14], then melted where desired, lowering the platform, applying a new powder layer of defined thickness on the platform, and starting with the next preheating step. Literature reports indicate that selective electron beam melting results in relatively coarse surfaces and internal microstructures [15], but on the other hand in low residual stress [16].
Besides selective electron beam melting, there are several laser-based processes that work with a powder bed. One is the aforementioned selective laser melting (SLM), using a laser to fully melt the powder, in this way creating dense layers so that no post-treatment (as in SLS) is necessary [17]. Instead of the electron beam described previously, here a laser beam scans the surface, focused with normal glass lenses. SLM usually works in a nitrogen or argon atmosphere to avoid oxidation during the fusion process, with nitrogen having a larger thermal conductivity, which is advantageous for cooling the specimens that are produced [18][19]. The SLS process is in principle identical, with a different nature of powder fusion [20]. The process and the melt pool formation are depicted in Figure 2 [20]. Similar to the aforementioned selective electron beam melting, here a laser beam is used to melt the powder in the upper layer, before the build plate is lowered, and a new powder layer is placed in the build area by the recoater (Figure 2a). The geometry of the melt pool, produced by laser heating, is depicted in detail in Figure 2b.
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Figure 2. (a) Typical SLM or SLS process; (b) heat transfer paths in melt pool formation and solidification in an SLM process. From [20], originally published under a CC-BY license.
In addition to these typical powder bed fusion processes, there are also directed energy deposition (DED) processes used for metal additive manufacturing. Figure 3 depicts two typical DED systems [21], working with a laser or electron beam and powder or wire feed, respectively. In both cases, the material used to build an object is deposited only at the required position, either as a powder (Figure 3A) or as a wire (Figure 3B), opposite to the aforementioned powder bed processes where the powder is provided along the whole building area. These materials are again heated by laser (Figure 3A) or electron beam (Figure 3B), similar to the aforementioned techniques.
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Figure 3. Schematics of two directed energy deposition (DED) systems: (A) DED system using laser with powder feedstock; (B) DED system using electron beam and wire feedstock. Reprinted from [21], with permission from Elsevier.
Electron-DED again works in vacuum, while laser-based DED systems use inert gases as described for the powder bed fusion processes. In the powder-based DED systems, an inert gas can be introduced into the melting region together with the metal powder (Figure 3A). It is even possible to use multiple nozzles for powder introduction so that objects can be prepared from material mixtures, differing along the specimen [22]. It is also possible to use plasma as the energy source, such as gas metal arc welding [23]. Generally, laser- and plasma-produced parts usually need post-treatment due to high residual stress in the specimens, which has to be relieved and the necessity to improve the microstructure, while stress is usually lower for electron-beam produced parts which are nearly fully densely produced [24].
Another additive manufacturing technique working with a wire is the wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), in which a wire feed is molten by an electric arc source, allowing for additive manufacturing of steel and several alloys [25][26].
Additionally, it should be mentioned that some of the alloys which are highly interesting for space applications have been processed with especially well-suited metal additive manufacturing methods. A compositionally graded alloy from CoCrMo and Inconel 718, enabling fitting the material at each position to the required working conditions, was produced by laser powder bed fusion [27]. SEBM is often used to prepare Ni-based superalloys for high-temperature applications [28].
Generally, it must be mentioned that the morphological properties of additively manufactured specimens can significantly differ from the designed structures, and the mechanical properties can show large deviations from the wrought material due to the inclusion of air voids or other microstructural differences [29][30]. Other problems related to the different methods are the aforementioned necessity to work in vacuum or inert gas atmosphere and the often highly challenging parameter optimization for each new material, including different batches of nominally identical materials. Furthermore, each material has different challenges, such as the problem of hot cracking at grain boundaries in Ni-based superalloys, occurring during the final solidification stages [31].
As this brief overview of some common metal additive manufacturing methods shows, there are diverse techniques available with different advantages and challenges, which are steadily being developed for using metal additive manufacturing in increasingly more applications. The next sections give an overview of possible applications in aerospace research and industry.

3. Microsatellites

Microsatellites have emerged during the last few years since they are relatively inexpensive and can be used for a broad range of applications [32][33]. There have been diverse attempts to use 3D printing techniques for different parts of microsatellites, using polymers, metals, and hybrid materials, which were previously reviewed by our group [34], so that here only a brief overview of the most recent reports is given.
Funase et al. reported on a water resistojet thruster system called “Aquarius” for the EQUULEUS CubeSat, which is planned to explore the Earth–Moon Lagrange point, whose vaporization chamber is prepared from the aluminum alloy AlSi10Mg and in which the cavity and flow paths are produced by additive manufacturing by a not-nearer defined technique [35]. The same material was used for selective laser melting of a whole CubeSat structure to improve the accessibility to internal components by using a modular backplane system [36].
Yendler et al. prepared a thermal management system for high power CubeSats to reach effective heat dissipation and used additive manufacturing by ultrasonic welding combined with CNC subtractive manufacturing for the preparation of the whole system, consisting of a rollout deployable radiator, a phase change material based thermal accumulator, and structurally integrated heat pipes [37].
In his dissertation thesis, working on a CubeSat power management subsystem for the ALSat#1 mission, Panagopoulos reports that one of the partners of the consortium uses metal additive manufacturing for the structural design of the satellite, without more specific information about the exact technique [38]. A CubeSat structure was also reported to be manufactured using selective laser sintering [39].
An antenna for low-Earth orbit microsatellites, produced by electron beam melting, was reported by Arnaud et al. [40]. Similarly, metasurface antennas especially for CubeSats and SmallSats were built by metal additive manufacturing combined with CNC milling [41]. Larger structures, such as a solar panel, were prepared by SLM, allowing for printing a double-layer aluminum structure with I-shaped beams (Figure 4), which was found to show significantly increased shielding, improved mechanical properties, and reduced mass, as compared to a conventional aluminum honeycomb panel [42].
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Figure 4. An additively manufactured one-piece solar panel. From [42], originally published under a CC-BY license.
Generally, diverse parts of microsatellites have been prepared by metal additive manufacturing, interestingly not only in the laboratory, but also by companies such as Rocket Lab, SpaceX, or Blue Origin [43][44][45]. For the future, even printing directly in space was announced [46], indicating that this area of additive manufacturing for microsatellites has already reached a certain process maturity.
While not much progress has been reported throughout the last year regarding metal additive manufacturing of microsatellites, many studies investigated the use of metal additive manufacturing for different parts of rockets, spaceships, etc. which will be discussed in the next sections.

4. Thrusters

Thrusters can be categorized based on diverse working principles, such as Hall thrusters showing a high thrust efficiency and high ion beam density due to a moderate magnetic field applied to the acceleration zone [47], pulsed plasma thrusters [48], electrospray thrusters working with ionic liquid propellants [49][50], etc. While Hall thrusters are most often used for satellites [51], applications requiring lower energies, such as the aforementioned CubeSats or other microsatellites, can be driven and navigated by microcathode arc or other plasma thrusters, field emission thrusters, electrospray thrusters, or different sorts of electric thrusters [52][53][54][55].
One of the important differences between conventional production methods and additive manufacturing is the possibility to use more lightweight designs, but on the other hand to ensure the reliability of the 3D printed object in spite of possible differences in the mechanical or other physical properties, as compared to subtractive manufacturing methods. Meisel et al. and Woods et al., e.g., discussed the redesign of a NASA thruster applied for spacecraft attitude control, as it is enabled by switching from conventional manufacturing to powder-bed fusion of the metal alloy Inconel®718 [56][57]. They applied different specific designs for additive manufacturing and showed that manufacturing time and costs could be reduced by the new freedom of design, given by the additive manufacturing process. The same material was investigated by Soller et al. who also tested stainless steel 316 L and CoCr for high-temperature applications in a liquid rocket engine injector, especially an injector head for an expander cycle and a gas generator setup, finding a large potential mass reduction of approximately 25% due to an optimized design and significantly reduced manufacturing costs for the selective laser melting process [58].
Different designs were also discussed by Borgue et al. who compared a design for a gridded ion thruster with full design freedom with a second one taking into account limitations of additive manufacturing and found that only the latter could be manufactured [59]. Figure 5 depicts the design for the maximized thruster performance (Figure 5a) and the more realistic design, taking into account material and geometry limitations, e.g., disregarding multimaterial structures. While the latter is less innovative, it can be manufactured according to recent technological methods. However, new developments may enable additive manufacturing of the first design, too, which would lead to higher perceived performance because of the rounder chamber shape.
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Figure 5. (a) Free design for maximized thruster performance; (b) design taking into account realistic additive manufacturing limitations. (1) Aluminum chamber, (2) connecting point importing the propellant, (3) channels guiding the gas, (4) gas exit, (5/10) hollow cathode for plasma generation, (6) electromagnet copper coil, (7) electromagnet iron core, (8/9) exit grids. From [59], originally published under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Besides the aforementioned materials, several metals and metal alloys were investigated as possible 3D printing materials for thrusters. Inconel®625 was chosen by Takahashi et al. who developed a thruster for the use with hydrazine based on binder jetting 3D printing to reduce the surface roughness as compared to laser-based additive manufacturing techniques [60]. In this way, production time and complexity could be reduced; vibration tests showed an equivalent performance of the 3D printed parts in comparison with flight-proven models, and hot-firing tests showed stable combustion, while the pressure roughness was slightly larger than in conventionally produced thrusters.
Another material class often used for aerospace applications is titanium aluminide alloys, containing the ordered γ-TiAl phase [61]. Seidel et al. used electron beam melting combined with laser metal deposition to produce a thruster nozzle from γ-TiAl for a cold-gas propulsion system, which can be used for navigation of small satellites to nanosatellites [62][63]. The authors pointed out the necessity to use a material that could withstand temperatures of more than 700 °C, which are necessary to increase the propellant efficiency in cold-gas propulsion systems [64]. Furthermore, either investigations of the interaction between γ-TiAl and the often used propellant ammonia are necessary [65], or noble gases should be used as propellants instead [66].
Tommila et al. investigated laser powder bed fusion of a nickel alloy for the production of very small nozzles with diameters below 1 mm, as they are used in electrothermal or chemical thrusters of small satellites [67]. They found typical printing-derived surface features of the as-printed nozzles to cause shock wave reflections and other thrust losses in comparison with conventionally produced nozzles of similar surface roughness, and suggest postprocessing of the nozzle exit cone to avoid such shock-inducing protrusions.
Powder bed laser processing was also used to prepare specimens from platinum rhodium alloy as well as tantalum and tungsten, finding that platinum rhodium additively manufactured parts could be used to build a combustion chamber and nozzle [68]. The authors suggest building the inner surface of a thrust chamber from noble metal alloys such as platinum rhodium or platinum iridium, while the outer wall could be prepared from tantalum and tungsten.
Sangregorio et al. used selective laser melting to produce grids and keeper electrodes in ion thrusters from molybdenum and found the surface roughness to be problematic, but manageable by postprocessing, and the mechanical properties to reach about 80% of those gained with conventional production techniques [69]. Similarly, Guo et al. described SLM used for the production of ion engine grids as well as for printing ion extraction systems and ion optics [70].
Miniaturized Hall thrusters were built by Olano et al. using SmCo permanent magnets to create the necessary magnetic field even under high temperatures and a 3D printed anode from stainless steel 316, produced by selective laser melting of a more complex design than possible with conventional techniques [71]. As Figure 6 shows, the anode design significantly influences the propellant distribution, so that more sophisticated 3D printing enables tailoring the propellant distribution more homogeneously than that of equipment prepared by traditional manufacturing.
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Figure 6. Anode designs with corresponding propellant distributions. From [71], originally published under a CC-BY license.
Another aspect, the reduction of manufacturing costs, was in the focus of a recent study of Hoffman and Grubisic who combined selective laser melting with off-the-shelf components to build a 20 cm-diameter microwave discharge ion thruster [72]. They found the ion production cost sufficient, while the mass utilization efficiency needed more future research to increase the thruster performance.
In these and many other studies, investigating possibilities to use metal additive manufacturing for the preparation of thruster parts [73][74][75][76][77] report that the main problems are related to the reduced mechanical properties in comparison with wrought material and the necessity to postprocess the printed parts to reduce undesired surface roughness or printing artifacts. However, as these examples show, there are already well-working processes and several materials that can be used for this purpose, so that further implementations especially in CubeSats and other microsatellites and smaller satellites can be expected in the near future.
Besides these technologies typically used in satellites, it is also possible to use different alloys for liquid rocket channel-wall nozzles [78][79] and other liquid rocket engine component applications [80][81], as well as to prepare composite propellant grains for solid rockets [82][83].

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