California Firm Making Lightweight Tanks

Credit: Microcosm
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Microcosm, Inc. has found a way to make strong, lightweight tanks for space applications that it says can handle high pressure as well as the low temperatures needed to hold cryogenic propellants. That capability could come in handy as some of the new-space entrepreneurs look...

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