When astronauts travel deeper into space, every drop of fuel becomes critical, and keeping those fuels stable for months or even years is one of the biggest engineering challenges facing future missions. Now, University of Florida researchers have uncovered a surprising behavior in boiling liquids that could help solve that …
Tag: Space Cryogenics
AE Industrial Partners finalized its $845 million acquisition of L3Harris Technologies' space propulsion, power, and electronics units on August 4, 2026, relaunching the historic Rocketdyne brand as a standalone company for the first time in more than two decades. The deal gives AE Industrial a 60% controlling interest; L3Harris retains …
by Bradley Moore, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology The SpectroPhotometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization and ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a passively cooled astrophysical observatory operating in a synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It is a planned 26-month mission that will map …
The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft, the more fuel it requires to launch. Experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are testing technology that could solve this problem. The CryoFILL (Cryogenic …
An insight into past, present and future cryogenic missions where the Cryogenics and Fluids Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center had or has a significant role. by Mark Kimball, Ph.D., Cryogenics and Fluids Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Readers of this column may recall last year's recounting of …
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