When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA shuttlemanagers decided Thursday not to test fuel the external tank that will feed ...

fueling and simulated launch cycles. The nine-month, 40-cycle series of tests, concluded Aug. 9, is part of Northrop Grumman’s ongoing partnership with NASA to help mature space technologies required ...

When you’ve proven the biggest fuel tank of your new rocket will survive the pressure of launching, what’s next? If you’re NASA engineers and you’re lucky, you get the green light to “test until ...

NASA reached a milestone in Alabama this week when it and prime contractor Boeing completed the structural tests for the Space Launch System rocket. The deep space rocket’s components are now proven ...

Japanese firms JERA and IHI Corp. have launched the world’s first large-volume fuel ammonia demonstration testing at JERA’s 1-GW Unit 4 of its 4.1-GW Hekinan Thermal Power Station in Aichi Prefecture, ...

A piece of space history was loaded onto a barge last week waiting in Fidalgo Bay to be taken to a U.S. Coast Guard-approved site for testing. The carbon-fiber liquid-oxygen tank is the first ...

The four systems are being used to test plastic fuel tanks molded for the lawn maintenance industry. The Yamaha Helium Leak Test process constantly controls the pressure differential between the tank ...

Ford Motor Co. said it hasn’t been able to get fuel bladders needed for safety tests after the deaths of three Arizona Highway Patrol officers in crashes involving the auto maker’s Crown Victoria ...

A fuel tank fell off an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet from Eglin Air Force Base on Tuesday, landing in a residential neighborhood just shy of an elementary school outside of the Florida military ...