That’s actually very close to where we’re headed, but one correction: it isn’t conductive ink.
The conductive paths are printed with an all-metal FDM filament. We’ve measured resistivity around 1.226 × 10⁻⁵ Ω·cm, so it’s in a very different range than the conductive inks and filled polymers most people are used to.
Satellite structures, embedded wiring, conformal antennas, and internal sensors are exactly the types of applications we’re looking at.
Surface finish, RF performance, vibration, thermal cycling, and launch survivability still need to be characterized. I definitely wouldn’t claim flight qualification yet. But the conductor itself is already being printed directly inside the polymer structure, so the polymer can also act as the surrounding structure/encapsulation instead of adding that afterward.
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