In space vehicles, size may not matter, but weight does. Hoisting a payload straight up to escape Earth's gravity requires a phenomenal expenditure of energy, and every ounce saved in either launch ...

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 ...

The National Composites Centre (NCC) with industry guidance from Thales Alenia Space has manufactured an all-composites linerless (Type-V) tank demonstrator that is representative of those used for ...

Mojave, California-based reusable rocket-powered vehicle developer XCor Aerospace is to build a demonstration composite cryogenic tank under a four-year $7 million NASA exploration systems research ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Composites Centre has announced that it has successfully tested a range of composite cryogenic storage tanks with liquid hydrogen that it has designed and manufactured. Considered one of ...