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 ...

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 ...

The heart of the rocket that will launch astronauts to the Moon in a few years is now complete. These astronauts will become the first people to walk the lunar surface since Apollo. NASA announced on ...

Teams completed the welding of the Artemis III core stage liquid oxygen tank dome at the NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Crews moved the dome, which is the top of the tank. The dome ...

WESH 2 will stream the simulated launch on WESH.com.

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 ...

HyImpulse, Technologies in partnership with Greek advanced composite manufacturer, Adamant Composites, is proud to announce the successful completion of a hydrostatic burst test of a groundbreaking ...

Seattle roadways were snarled for six hours Thursday when a truck hauling liquid oxygen tanks broke down and began exploding on highway I-5. All southbound I-5 lanes, closed around 1 p.m. and roads ...

ESA’s Phoebus project is developing new carbon-fibre composite manufacturing processes for spacecraft fuel tanks, aiming to reduce their mass and increase performance for future high-thrust launchers.