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 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA scrubbed today’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis again, this time because of a problem that has bedeviled the space agency before: a faulty fuel tank sensor. The ...

Regular readers of Hackaday will know that the projects we feature are generally of the high-tech variety. Microcontrollers, 3D printed parts, embedded Linux, lots of wires, that sort of thing. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. Last week as usual, I filled the tank of my 1997 Buick Park Avenue with 89 octane gas. As I drove away, the fuel-gauge needle convulsed wildly, swinging rapidly and repeatedly from full to empty.

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 ...