Developed with the assistance of BLT, a remote sensing satellite was successfully launched onboard Tianzhou 6 cargo spaceship

The cargo was launched by China's Long March-7 carrier rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province on Wednesday at around 9:22 pm.

Bright Laser Technologies (BLT) was one of the businesses that helped Dalian University of Technology design and develop "Dalian 1- Lian li Satellite", a 12U cubesat with high-resolution. Both the design and 3D printing of its deployer structure were provided by BLT.

Through optimization design and simulation analysis, BLT team redesigned most of the structure of the deployer structure to fit the additive manufacturing process, further increasing stiffness and reducing the overall mass.

The deployer structure of "Dalian 1-Lianli Satellite" consists of multiple components such as the main frame and the hatch. The structure of the main frame is approximately 400mm × 400mm × 500mm in size with a minimum wall thickness of 1mm, which requires high precision for integrally formed parts. After analyzing the satellite operation environment and forming difficulties, BLT team selected AlSi10Mg and used BLT-S800 printing system (equipped with eight 500 W lasers) for printing, yielding rapid development of parts. As a result, the dimensional accuracy of the key parts of the final production totally met the operating requirements of the satellite to overcome space factors such as high-low temperatures, thermal vacuum, and atomic oxygen corrosion, ensuring the reliability of long-term in-orbit storage before release.

Besides aerospace industry, BLT has provided one-stop customized product solutions in a variety of applications ranging from energy, medical, dentistry, industrial mold to automotive. Taking clients and markets as our first priority, BLT has been dedicated to assisting them in cost reduction, efficiency boost and quality refinement.

In 2022, BLT’s revenue reached $140 million, a significant 66% increase from $80 million in 2021. By the end of 2022, with a market value of about $2.53 billion, BLT ranked top among the publicly traded AM companies worldwide.

About BLT

Xi’an Bright Laser Technologies Co., Ltd. (BLT), founded in July, 2011, can provide a complete technical solution of metal additive manufacturing including customized products, equipment, raw materials, software and technical service. By the end of 2022 BLT had delivered thousands of metal 3D printing systems in total, which were sold to over twenty countries and regions around the world.

BLT website:https://www.xa-blt.com/en/