Advances In Lightweight Composite Tanks For Launchers

Credit: Northrop Grumman
Lightweight composite structures, manufactured “out of autoclave” without pressurized curing, are a major goal in NASA’s latest technology road map, but the shape of the tanks is bringing a degree of difficulty to this process. Engineers working on two different NASA-backed composite cryogenic tank...

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