Andrew Klein, one of Additive Innovations co-founders, presented Additive Innovations’ AM SiC capabilities at NASA’s Mirror Tech Days in Greenbelt, Md. Andrew highlighted the team’s capabilities to produce complex, lightweight mirrors using AM SiC to the audience of government and commercial optics experts. He also updated the group on Additive Innovations’ progress demonstrating free-form optics using AM SiC.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded Additive Innovations a SBIR Phase I award under its X-Ray Mirror Systems Technology topic to develop low-cost, free-form optics using silicon carbide additive manufacturing. Using Additive Innovations’ AM SiC product, the team will demonstrate the feasibility of using AM SiC as a substrate to produce complex free-form optics. At the end of the Phase I program, Additive Innovations will deliver 2 complex SiC optics for NASA’s evaluation.