CEUS
Composites for Exploration Upper Stage (CEUS)
Composites for Exploration Upper Stage
NASA seeks innovative means of reducing launch vehicle mass and increasing payload mass for robust new science and exploration missions into the solar system. The Composites for Exploration Upper Stage project, or CEUS, managed for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is a ground-demonstration project using lightweight, composite materials in the design, construction and testing of liquid hydrogen tank skirts of the same scale needed for use on NASA’s Space Launch System Exploration Upper Stage.
The project will validate the manufacturability, structural margins, thermal isolation improvements and inspection techniques of large-scale composite structures for possible use by the Space Launch System and other advanced launch vehicles and space structures.
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