Titomic and Gilmour Space Technologies sign Statement of Strategic Intent and Technical Development
Australian additive manufacturing (AM) company Titomic has announced a collaboration with Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland to 3D print high-performance rocket and aerospace components.
This Statement of Strategic Intent and Technical Development will see the two companies cooperate on R&D for rocket components using Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) technology to benefit Australia’s future space exploration activities.
James Gilmour, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Gilmour Space, said: “Gilmour Space is developing new launch vehicles to support today’s global small satellite market, and this partnership could see us leveraging on Titomic's innovative manufacturing processes to produce lighter and stronger components for our orbital launch vehicles”
Titomic was founded in 2014 to commercialise its solid-state metal AM technology, which enables large, complex parts to be produced with dissimilar metals using a cold spray process developed by the national research organisation CSIRO. The company’s Melbourne-based bureau currently has the capacity to print metal parts up to 9m long and 3m wide. With this large-format capability, Gilmour Space, which focuses on innovative hybrid propulsion technologies to make access to space cheaper, will be able to employ TKF to produce rockets and other large space components in a single piece.
Jeff Lang, Founder & Managing Director at Titomic added: “This is an exciting new development for Titomic to share a commercially strategic vision to deliver unique capabilities of advanced technologies to assure growth of the Australian space eco-system. The Gilmour Space strategy, for lower cost access to launch satellites into space by affordable high-performance rockets, is in synergy with Titomic’s capability to provide an affordable alternative to traditional manufacturing by utilising the unique capabilities of Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) technology."
