development and successful initial testing of the first sub-scale cryogenic tank built of a composite material that is compatible with liquid oxygen. Lockheed Martin designed and built the composite ...

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 ...

Move crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility lift the aft liquid oxygen tank (LOX) barrel out of the Vertical Weld Center (VWC) for its next phase of production. The aft barrel will eventually be ...

As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to return astronauts to the moon under its Artemis campaign for the benefit of all, the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will be responsible for ...

Ogive shaped nose section of ET-138 at Michoud holds forward liquid oxygen tank on top of aft liquid hydrogen tank and connecting intertank – surrounded by scaffolding. ET-138 will fuel STS 134 flight ...

A piece of space history was loaded onto a barge last week waiting in Fidalgo Bay to be taken to a U.S. Coast Guard-approved site for testing. The carbon-fiber liquid-oxygen tank is the first ...

According to Guangwei Composites, this is the first time that a domestic large-scale composite liquid oxygen tanks has used domestic carbon fiber and has passed the test verification of engineering ...