Tag: NASA

CB&I with Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., GenH2 and the University of Houston recently completed an affordable, large-scale liquid hydrogen (LH2) storage tank concept at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama.

MagDrive Technologies, a pioneering company in clean tech and valve innovation, is proud to announce it has been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.

Marotta Controls, a rapidly growing aerospace and defense supplier with a 65-year-plus heritage in spaceflight, has been selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to supply two types of valves on the Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL), a key element of NASA’s Mars Sample Return program.

Valtorc International, a leading U.S. manufacturing operation, has been tapped to fabricate V ball control valves for a NASA project.

ProMation Engineering will supply electric actuators to the high-pressure industrial water (HPIW) facility at Stennis Space Center.

ProMation Engineering has shipped its first orders of electric actuators to the Stennis Space Center for use on control valves used in the high pressure industrial water (HPIW) facility.

Oliver Valves, a valve manufacturer, has received an order from NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ordered Oliver Valves Gauge Bleed Instrument Valves.

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room  aboard  the International Space Station (ISS) recently, in what could be the first step towards entire inflatable space stations.

NASA has begun funding a start-up that is looking to begin producing the first functioning zero gravity 3-D printers. While the company “Made in Space” already has a prototype at the International Space Station (ISS), a new model is expected to launch to the ISS on March 23, 2016.

A recent patent awarded to NASA details plans for a new amorphous robot that suggests that the US space agency is planning to move away from its traditional “lab-on-wheels” type of rover in favor of a radical redesign inspired by worms and amoebas.