A team of engineers from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. have demonstrated that a new, specially designed fuel tank made from ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - NASA has successfully pressure-tested a large cryogenic fuel tank made of composite materials. The space agency calls the test results obtained at Marshall Space Flight Center a ...

Non-autoclave manufacturing process proven viable for making large, reusable fuel tanks The viability of a reusable launch vehicle got a major technological boost recently when Northrop Grumman ...

A year ago, we told you about the first spacecraft fuel tank from NASA and Cobham Life Support that could fall apart harmlessly when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Its secret? Carbon composites ...

The goal of the project is a functional sample of a segment of a non-standard shaped composite tank for gaseous fuels such as hydrogen for use in aviation. This tank will assume integration into the ...

Although composites have set the materials standard in many areas of space vehicle construction, cryogenic tanks — containers capable of storing super-cooled liquid fuels under high pressure, such as ...

The 4.3-meter (14 foot) diameter composite tank is similar in size to the fuel tanks intended for use in the upper stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is the foundational ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - NASA engineers here have loaded one of the largest composite rocket fuel tanks ever built into a test stand for a series squeeze tests at super-cold temperatures. The ...

Northrop Grumman technology poised for role in future space exploration programmes Leak-proof composite cryogenic fuel-tank technology developed by Northrop Grumman for NASA's now-defunct programme to ...