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For its single-piece 3D printed rocket engines, Agnikul Cosmos has obtained a patent
The first firm to create a rocket engine that can be built using 3D printing is Agnikul.
Agnikul Cosmos, an Indian space technology startup, revealed on Wednesday that the Indian government has granted it a patent for the design and production of its single-piece rocket engines.
The IIT-Madras-based startup stated in a news release that one of these single piece engines, “Agnilet,” is the first single-piece 3D printed rocket engine in the world that is fully designed and manufactured in India and was successfully tested-fired in early 2021.
Agnilet was created with just one piece of hardware and no completed parts, encapsulating all of these components. The most important conference for space technology in the world, IAC 2021 in Dubai, was where Agnikul displayed this engine, according to the press release.
“Thousands of parts make up a typical rocket engine, from the injectors that feed fuel into the engine to the cooling channels that keep the engine cool to the igniter required to ignite the propellants. Although our team has shown that designing Agnilet as a single piece of hardware has not been straightforward, “Co-founder and CEO of Agnikul Cosmos Srinath Ravichandran stated in the press announcement.
The Agnikul team’s ability to perform world-class designed-in-India and made-in-India deep-tech engineering is demonstrated by this patent, he continued.
