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 ...

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 ...

IACMI (The Composites Institute) will receive $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance ...

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 ...

SNAPSHOT: HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering-led consortium developed a tool-free hybrid process combining large-format 3D printing and continuous fiber tape to produce a front apron and nose demonstrator a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Composites Centre (NCC, Bristol, U.K.) has created a concept design tool that optimizes hydrogen cryogenic tank designs according to a customer’s specific requirements. Developed over 12 ...