AI is one of the most misused tools in modern technology, which is why whenever I see it doing something actually useful and cool I like to point at it and loudly scream: "More like this, please!" In today's offering, we have this 3D printed aerospike engine created using AI's generative design skills that just completed its first successful hot fire test.
Hackaday first spotted the design a few years back, when startups Hyperganic and AMCM first collaborated on the design. The result was an 800 mm 3D printable aerospike engine, suitable for working at all pressures and thus theoretically able to take over the job of multiple engines designed for different conditions. The iterative process of generative algorithms have now delivered what is hopefully a working prototype of this notoriously difficult style of engine.
