Work
Generatively designed aluminum parts and flight hardware. Our parts focus on the mass-to-stiffness ratio: consistently a 5× reduction in mass, a 3–6× increase in stiffness, and time-to-prototype cut from weeks or months to hours.
Flight hardware · flew on BOOP
T2S-1 — Text-to-Spaceship
Flight enclosure, avionics and firmware for the BOOP scientific balloon mission, launched from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Concept to flight hardware in about 12 weeks.
- Cycle
- ~12 weeks
- Process
- CNC billet, 6061-T6
Case studies
Brackets & mounts
A41 Satellite Mirror Bracket
Fast-steering-mirror bracket for a NASA Low-Earth-Orbit satellite. Three mass variants built and damping-tested.
AI-assisted design
Lunar Sample Collection Container
2023 NASA Goddard Power Source Summit Challenge: requirements to machined hardware in under 36 hours.
AI-assisted design
ChatGSFC Voice-Designed Bracket
Bolt size, location, pointing angle and supported masses were spoken to NASA's ChatGSFC; a machinable part came out.
Aluminum parts gallery
All parts 6061-T6 aluminum, CNC machined. Tap a photo to enlarge.
ChatGSFC Designed Bracket
The first bracket designed entirely by voice interaction with ChatGSFC (NASA's version of ChatGPT). The only things specified were bolt size, location, pointing angle, and the masses of the objects supported.
Lunar Sample Collection Container
Designed at the 2023 Power Source Summit Challenge, where attendees gave NASA Goddard engineers requirements for a container that could hold the sample vessel and be handled by a robot or a human. Requirements to parts in under 36 hours. More at Protolabs.
Lunar Sample Collection Container
Second view of the container: the generatively designed frame around the sample vessel, machined from a single billet.
A41 (Front View)
Designed to hold a fast steering mirror for a NASA Low-Earth-Orbit satellite. Designed in less than 8 hours using generative design.
A41 (Rear View)
Rear view of the same bracket: organic load paths from the mirror interface down to the four mounting feet.
A41 under test
Three versions of the A41 bracket were made, each varying in mass, to determine how mass changes in generatively designed parts affect their overall damping coefficients.
6061-T6 aluminum · CNC machining
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