Moran Innovation 2022 Highlights

• Densified Propellant Testing: Moran Innovation was awarded a subcontract to provide subject matter expertise for densified propellant capabilities development at White Sands Test Facility.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).
• Other news. See the Moran Innovation website and blog at LH2era.com for more in depth information and news on hydrogen, propulsion, and power systems.

Matt Moran is the Managing Member at Moran Innovation LLC, and previous Managing Partner at Isotherm Energy. He's been developing power and propulsion systems for more than 40 years; and first-of-a-kind liquid, slush and gaseous hydrogen systems since the mid-1980s. Matt was also the Sector Manager for Energy & Materials in his last position at NASA where he worked for 31 years. He's been a cofounder in seven technology based start-ups; and provided R&D and engineering support to hundreds of organizations. Matt has three patents and more than 50 publications including the Cryogenic Fluid Management report series. He also leads the LH2 Era™ Webinar Series. More about Matt can be found on his LinkedIn page.