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 ...

NASA recently completed a major space technology development milestone by successfully testing a pressurized, large cryogenic propellant tank made of composite materials. The composite tank will ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The giant rocket fuel tank NASA unloaded Thursday from one of the world's legendary airplanes at Marshall Space Flight Center is a high-stakes bet on the future of space ...

If you want to build a rocket capable of escaping the earth's atmosphere and gravitational field, you need to be able to propel it a very long way, fast. Inherently this takes a great deal of fuel ...

A joint effort between NASA and Lockheed Martin has resulted in the development and successful initial testing of the first sub-scale cryogenic tank built of a composite material that is compatible ...

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 ...