When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA will delay the launch of itsnext space shuttle mission until July in order to replace ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fuel sensor that has given NASA headaches in the past acted up Friday morning forcing a delay of space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff. NASA managers continued to discuss problems with one of four engine ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter what kind of car you drive, gas pumps can tell when your tank is full. So how does the gas pump know when to stop? Gas pump sensor technology relies on a deceptively simple mechanism that ...

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 ...

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 ...