The custom-built beast of a machine can finish a weeks-long task in one day.
At Rocket Lab’s manufacturing complex in Maryland, a massive robot is hard at work stacking layers of a carbon composite rocket at a rate that will save the company thousands of hours in production.
“As we build the world’s largest carbon composite rocket, it makes sense that we require a world-first carbon composite fiber placement machine,” Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said in aNeutron is a medium-lift, two-stage launch vehicle that’s currently under development, with plans for a debut flight in 2025. The rocket is designed to deliver 28,700 pounds to low Earth orbit, and has a reusable first stage meant to reenter through Earth’s atmosphere and land back on its launchpad.
Rocket Lab’s 3D printer also comes with a real-time inspection system that’s on the lookout for any manufacturing defects during the process and notifies the machine operator before it moves on to the next layer or carbon. The giant robot won’t just be used to manufacture Neutron; Rocket Lab also intends on using the machine to print the first stages of its Electron rocket, as well as other spacecraft components such as structural panels and assemblies, solar panel substrates, and carbon composite tanks.
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