Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its ...

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its ...

Sometimes, failure is a success. That's what happened last week when NASA pushed a test version of a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket fuel tank past its limits, ripping a huge gash in its side.

With the support of the European Space Agency, German aerospace company MT Aerospace has developed a unique design for a small-scale rocket fuel tank made of a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic.

The fuel tank for America's new deep space rocket was built at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and is now on its way to the organization's facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

The advantages of having a rocket fuel tank made of CFRP, and with no metal, are of course obvious. First would be a reduction in weight (no data on how much that would be on an average-sized ...

A plastic bladder folded into an origami shape can stand up to cryogenic temperatures. (WSU Photo) Build a better fuel tank, and the space industry will beat a path to your door.

NASA tested one of the liquid hydrogen fuel tanks for the new Space Launch System until it broke at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Dec. 5.

This paper describes the instrumented test firing of a rocket that seeks to combine the throttleability of a liquid-fueled engine with the simplicity of a solid motor. The concept is that a ...

I n a new time-lapse video, NASA shows the construction of a massive 130-foot tall rocket fuel tank look in just 60 seconds. The video shows the liquid hydrogen tank from top and bottom angles as ...

NASA contractor Dynetics of Huntsville, Ala., says it has successfully tested a fuel tank that could be the model for tanks in future versions of the Space Launch System. The 18-foot diameter ...