Conduct ground testing and flight demonstration of cryogenic LH2 transfer (the most challenging of the cryogenic propellants) and long duration storage in space. CDM incorporates up to 17 critical technologies identified by NASA into a single system that demonstrates the transfer, storage, and pressure control of LH2.

The ability to store and transfer liquid hydrogen (LH2) is critical to NASA’s Artemis architecture, a future Lunar “water-based economy,” and the ability to send humans to Mars. This demonstration will advance several critical CFM technologies with an in-space demonstration in a micro-gravity (μ-g) environment.