Example Past Projects

Densified Propellant Testing: Moran Innovation has been awarded a subcontract to provide subject matter expertise for densified propellant capabilities development at White Sands Test Facility. (posted Dec 20, 2022)

Short course, invited panelist, and presentation: Matt Moran taught a short course and was a panelist and presenter on the topic of cryogenic systems at NASA's 2022 Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop. (posted Sep 8, 2022)

NASA Cryogenic Systems Modeling: Moran Innovation is supporting additional new contract work for NASA related to validation of high fidelity modeling tools with experimental tests of liquid hydrogen, methane, oxygen, and other cryogens. (posted Jun 27, 2022)

Heavy-Lift Aircraft: Moran Innovation completed support of a design cycle for the liquid hydrogen propulsion and power system of a private sector heavy-lift cargo aircraft. (posted May 1, 2022)

NASA Support Contract Extensions: Moran Innovation has been awarded two contract extensions of 6 months and 18 months, respectively, related to the NASA Human Landing System program. (posted April 4, 2022)

Cryogenic Fluid Management: Part 1 of this report series has been published and is available online. In-house training based on the material is also available (see Training). (posted Mar 13, 2022)

Long Term Liquid Hydrogen Storage: Moran Innovation is supporting NASA under subcontract to HX5 for the Lockheed Martin Tipping Point testing of more than a dozen cryogenic fluid management technologies, positioning them for infusion into future space systems. (posted Dec 29, 2021)

Orbital Cryogenic Propellant Transfer: Moran Innovation is supporting NASA under subcontract to HX5 for the SpaceX Tipping Point large-scale flight demonstration to transfer cryogenic propellant between tanks on a Starship vehicle. (posted Dec 20, 2021)

CHS Conference (update): Matt Moran presented "Densified Liquid Hydrogen and No-Loss (Zero Boil-off) Systems" at the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) Asia-Pacific Conference held virtually Nov 30 - Dec 2. It builds upon last year's liquid hydrogen presentation (see: www.LH2era.com for slides and video). (posted Dec 3, 2021)

Cryogenic Systems Expertise Support: Moran Innovation has been awarded a 6-month subcontract extension to provide cryogenic systems expertise to NASA in support of the Artemis Program to return humans to the moon. (posted Sep 15, 2021) 

Hydrogen Drones and Microgrid Energy Storage (update): Moran Innovation is supporting development of extended duration drones and integrated hydrogen energy storage for base operations under subcontract to NEOEx Systems. This effort has been selected for a follow on 15-month Phase II award from the USAF culminating in flight demonstrations. (posted Jul 27, 2021)

Liquid Hydrogen Fueling Systems: The new US federal defense appropriation budget includes $10 million for R&D related to liquid hydrogen refueling systems. Moran Innovation has been asked to support this effort. (posted Jul 15, 2021)

Hydrogen Safety U.S. Conference: Matt Moran made a presentation on liquid hydrogen safety considerations at this conference. The presentation slides and videos can be accessed here. (posted Sep 16, 2020)

Propulsion Trade Studies: Moran Innovation recently completed a liquid hydrogen propulsion system assessment for a heavy lift aircraft application; and is currently supporting a set of space vehicle engine trades. (posted Sep 10, 2020)

AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum: Matt Moran was an invited panelist on the topic of "Sustaining Mission Possibilities Through Enabling Technologies". See a video clip of his opening remarks here. (posted: Aug 26, 2020)

NASA Human Landing System: Moran Innovation has been awarded a 14-month subcontract to provide cryogenic systems expertise to NASA in support of the next human moon mission. Liquid hydrogen, oxygen and methane propulsion systems are being developed by the selected companies: Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX. (posted July 27, 2020) 

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS): Moran Innovation has been retained by one of the CLPS provider teams to support systems engineering, launch services selection, and mission design review. (posted: Jun 1, 2020)

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle: Moran Innovation has completed business and technology development support for a car company that started with a visit to their California facility in January. The scope of the consulting effort focused on hydrogen-based transportation systems. (posted: May 20, 2020)

SpaceX Cryogenic Propellant System Support: Matt Moran presented analysis and design trade results for the NASA-funded lunar lander vehicle study at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. (posted: Jan 20, 2020)

Cryogenic Fluid Management: Moran Innovation has been awarded a subcontract to provide cryogenic fluid management expertise to NASA in support of their Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program. (posted: Sep 25, 2019)

The Energy Storage Building Efficiency Conference: Matt Moran was a panelist on the topic of fuel cells, hydrogen energy storage and microgrids at this event. (posted: Sep 24, 2019)

NASA Technology Transfer: Moran Innovation is supporting a review of technology disclosures, patents and licensing to provide recommendations to NASA for improvement. (posted: Aug 20, 2019)

Hydrogen Energy and Renewables Architecture (HyERA)™ : This system software has been updated for a proposed community scale hydrogen-based power and mobility project. (posted: Jul 1, 2019)