As the only H-2 resource on aircraft from the steam reforming of the jet fuels on board, catalytic steam reforming of JP-10 (one of Jet fuels) over nickel-based catalyst Ni/SBA-15 were first carried out in a fixed bed tube reactor to produce hydrogen on-site or on board. A series of Ni/SBA-15 catalysts with different Ni content (3, 5, 8 and 10.8 wt%) were prepared by a modified incipient wetness impregnation method with addition of sucrose as ligand. And the effect of operation conditions of temperature (630-700 degrees C), nickel loading, liquid hour space velocity (LHSV = 5, 10, 15 ml/g(cat).h), steam to carbon molar ratio (S/C = 3, 5) on the catalytic activity and selectivity was investigated. It was found that 8Ni/SBA-15 was the optimal catalyst for steam reforming of JP-10 even with a higher LHSV and fuel gas concentration, and approximately 100% conversion of JP-10 with over 80% selectivity to hydrogen under the recommended experimental conditions of 680 degrees C, S/C of 5, LHSV of 10 ml/g(cat).h. The catalytic activity of 8Ni/SBA-15 dropped slowly to 84% after 6.5 h in the stability test and the carbon deposited was less with just 6% mass loss from TGA measurement (coke deposition rate 0.01gc/g(cat)h), which ascribed to possible reasons including confine effect of mesochannel of SBA-15, strengthened structure of mesochannels due to embeded Ni particles, and higher temperature to suppress the main carbon producing reaction. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.