Building Legacy Components For Space

Objectify Technologies grows bigger in metal additive manufacturing by optimising special brackets for the space industry.

Metal and polymer additive manufacturing engineering or 3D Printing company, Objectify Technologies’ expertise in aerospace, automotive, tooling, white goods and medical component building and consulting services is paying off. In aerospace, the company has leveraged its in-house capabilities. It has won the company a prized project with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The company has collaborated with the prestigious Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSCC) at Thiruvananthapuram, known for design and development of satellite launch vehicles and sounding rockets with Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicles (GSLV Mark I and Mark II), Rohini sounding rockets, Space capsule recovery experiments, reusable launch vehicles and airbreathing propulsion for Advanced Reusable Launch Vehicles (ASLV) as some of the key programmes.

Ankit Sahu, Director at Objectify Technologies Pvt. Ltd., backs the use of additive manufacturing in space projects for easing human travel and in the colonisation projects on other planets. “Additive manufacturing in space has a very bright future. Most of the parts required in space research are made of plastic or some metal and additive manufacturing can be used to reduce satellite production costs, repair broken parts with less labour, money, resource and time,” he avers. He adds that the light 3D builds contribute to making the satellites lighter too. Objectify, according to Sahu, wants to help companies attain maturity in additive manufacturing going forward.

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