NASA will delay the launch of its next space shuttle mission until July in order to replace potentially faulty fuel sensors inside the orbiter’s massive external tank, the agency’s shuttle program ...

SUBJECT: Final Memorandum on the Review of the Space Shuttle Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Tank Sensors (Report No. IG-09-009; Assignment No. S-08-011-00) Since March 2006, Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC ...

Shipley Energy reports that tank monitors enhance fuel management, reducing downtime and costs by providing real-time fuel ...

NASA has pinneddown the apparent location of an erratic fuel tank sensor glitch that foiledtwo launch attempts of the space shuttle Atlantis, the agency said Tuesday. Engineers trackedthe glitch to an ...

Worries must be resolved before decision is made on July launch window A propellant loading test with Space Shuttle Discovery on 20 May failed to satisfy concerns over two external tank components ...

NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis onFriday because of a problem with a sensor on the large external fuel tank. NASA will attempt to launch Atlantis at 11:15 a.m. ET Saturday. All six ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the fourth time in two weeks, NASA nixed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, this time for a faulty fuel tank sensor — the same glitch that has thwarted two other ...

NASA will fill the space shuttle Atlantis's fuel tank next week in hopes of cracking a vexing fuel gauge problem that led to back-to-back launch delays, the agency said Tuesday. The trouble could be ...

Amman, June 24 (Petra) - Engineer Nizar Bargash from the Jordan Petroleum Refinery CO (Jopetrol) has obtained a patent for the "Water and Flood Sensor System in Fuel Tanks," which has been registered ...

IF THIS OCCURS, THE FUEL GAUGE IN THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WOULD DISPLAY A LARGER AMOUNT OF FUEL THAN WAS ACTUALLY IN THE TANK. AS A RESULT, IF THE TANK BECAME EMPTY, THE VEHICLE COULD STALL INCREASING ...

NASA will delay the launch of itsnext space shuttle mission until July in order to replace potentially faultyfuel sensors inside the orbiter's massive external tank, the agency's shuttleprogram chief ...