When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA shuttlemanagers decided Thursday not to test fuel the external tank that will feed ...

fueling and simulated launch cycles. The nine-month, 40-cycle series of tests, concluded Aug. 9, is part of Northrop Grumman’s ongoing partnership with NASA to help mature space technologies required ...

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 ...

The four systems are being used to test plastic fuel tanks molded for the lawn maintenance industry. The Yamaha Helium Leak Test process constantly controls the pressure differential between the tank ...

When you’ve proven the biggest fuel tank of your new rocket will survive the pressure of launching, what’s next? If you’re NASA engineers and you’re lucky, you get the green light to “test until ...

A fuel tank fell off an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet from Eglin Air Force Base on Tuesday, landing in a residential neighborhood just shy of an elementary school outside of the Florida military ...