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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

French automotive supplier Faurecia SA is building a “global center of expertise” for hydrogen storage systems at its R&D campus in Bavans, France. The company aims to invest in R&D activities to ...

COMPOSITE TANK: Northrop Grumman and Marshall Space Flight Center engineers have demonstrated that a fuel tank made of composite materials can safely contain liquid hydrogen under simulated launch ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IACMI – The Composite Institute learned July 20 it will receive $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology ...

Infinite Composites Inc. (Tulsa, Okla., U.S.) signed a contract for a $1.6 million small business innovative research (SBIR) direct to phase II contract by the U.S. Army to develop conformable ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government wants Boeing Co. to demonstrate that composite fuel tanks and wings on its 787 Dreamliner resist fire long enough to let passengers escape in an ...