Velo3D, Inc. (OTCQX: VLDX) signed a strategic partnership with Vaya House, a hybrid rocket firm targeted on house propulsion methods. The 2 firms have inked a $4 million, two-year Grasp Providers Settlement (MSA) to collaborate on manufacturing and innovation efforts in high-performance additive manufacturing.
At their Cocoa Seaside, FL facility, Vaya House Lead Propulsion Engineer Kineo Wallace and COO Rob Fabian share their sizzling fireplace take a look at pad with Brice Cooper, VP of Protection, and Michelle Sidwell, CRO of Velo3D. Collectively, they reviewed the efficiency of Vaya’s hybrid rocket engines—engineered to be less complicated, safer and extra sustainable with non-toxic, non-explosive propellants.
Vaya House chosen Velo3D as a key strategic accomplice in its propulsion improvement roadmap. Below the settlement, Vaya House will leverage Velo3D’s Fast Manufacturing Answer (RPS) to speed up manufacturing of important propulsion system parts and meet key improvement timelines. Using Velo3D’s Sapphire XC and XC1MZ printers, Vaya House will print components in each GRCop42—a NASA-developed copper alloy for high-heat switch—and Inconel 718, a superalloy identified for power and thermal resilience in aerospace purposes. Vaya makes use of the Sapphire platform to provide the world’s first expander cycle hybrid rocket engine.
As a part of the partnership, Velo3D will function Vaya House’s unique supplier of GRCop42 additive parts, delivering assured capability, superior engineering assist, and Move™ software program coaching to streamline design-to-production cycles for propulsion assemblies, together with nozzles, injectors, and turbopumps, by means of 2027. The 2 firms will work collaboratively to provide high-quality engine parts for aerospace and protection purposes sooner and at a decrease value than historically achievable.
“This partnership is a robust instance of how our Fast Manufacturing Answer helps scale complicated {hardware} manufacturing for at this time’s most formidable aerospace firms,” mentioned Dr. Arun Jeldi, CEO of Velo3D. “By combining our GRCop42 and Inconel 718 capabilities with deep engineering collaboration, we’re serving to Vaya House obtain sooner, cheaper manufacturing—proper right here in the US.”
“Additive manufacturing performs a central function in our skill to scale back design complexity, improve efficiency, and scale manufacturing,” mentioned Aaron Blankenship, Vice President of Operations at Vaya House. “Velo3D affords the manufacturing readiness, materials capabilities, and deep technical partnership we have to convey our imaginative and prescient to life and ship flight-ready engines on schedule.”
The MSA features a joint advertising roadmap and formal signing occasion at Vaya House’s testing facility in Cocoa, Florida, the place one of many propulsion methods produced with Velo3D components will probably be on show.
