{"id":55312,"date":"2022-05-24T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mitsubishi-electric-develops-technology-to-3d-print-satellite-antennas-in-space\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:30:35","slug":"mitsubishi-electric-develops-technology-to-3d-print-satellite-antennas-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mitsubishi-electric-develops-technology-to-3d-print-satellite-antennas-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi Electric Develops Technology to 3D Print Satellite Antennas in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Mitsubishi Electric Corporation<\/b> announced Tuesday that it has developed an additive manufacturing technology to 3D print satellite antennas in space. The novel technology uses a newly developed liquid resin with a low-power process that utilizes the sun\u2019s ultraviolet rays for photopolymerization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 3D printer extrudes a liquid resin that hardens into a rigid solid when exposed to solar ultraviolet rays. Using this technology, it is possible to manufacture a parabolic antenna that is both larger and lighter than a conventional antenna,\u201d the company said in a video explaining the technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi Electric reported it printed a prototype parabolic antenna with a diameter of 165 mm and confirmed a gain of 23.5 dB at 13.5 GHz in the Ku-band. The company received a patent for the 3D printing technology and a second patent for the development of a resin that can be cured by the sun\u2019s ultraviolet rays, even in vacuum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company said with this development a satellite\u2019s antenna size does not have to be limited by the size of the fairing of the launch vehicle or the size of the satellite bus, which is currently a constraint. This could allow small satellites to achieve large-satellite capabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced Tuesday that it has developed an additive manufacturing technology to 3D print satellite antennas in space. The novel technology uses a newly developed liquid resin with a low-power process that utilizes the sun\u2019s ultraviolet rays for photopolymerization. \u201cThe 3D printer extrudes a liquid resin that hardens into a rigid solid when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}