session 3

Title

Microgravity Experiments from Sub-Orbital to Orbital Platforms

Description

This session presents recent results of microgravity experiments from all disciplines using different microgravity platforms, including drop towers, parabolic aircrafts, sounding rockets and capsules.

Date

2014-09-30

Time

14:45

Room

810

IPC members
papers

Order

Time

Paper title

Selection result

Mode

Presentation status

Speaker

Affiliation

Country

1

PerWaves: Towards a Spaceflight Experiment to Realize Discrete Combustion Waves

accepted

15'

confirmed

Prof. Andrew Higgins

McGill University

Canada

2

Cryofenix (Cryogenic sounding rocket experiment) progress and status

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. BIANCHI SEBASTIEN

Air Liquide

France

3

Preliminary Results from a Soret Effect Experiment onboard REXUS 16: Chemical Wave In Soret Effect (CWIS)

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Antonio Pugliese

Stevens Institute of Technology

United States

4

Measurement of Soret Coefficients for a Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixture in Low Gravity Environment

accepted

15'

no-show

Prof. Ziad Saghir

Ryerson University

Canada

5

A comparison of the reflectivity of Ti6Al4V samples shielded with nanotube array before and after being melted in miligravity conditions

accepted

15'

withdrawn

Ms. Elena Sorina Lupu

Politechnic University of Bucharest

Romania

6

Self Rewetting fluids heat transfer experiment SELENE

accepted

15'

confirmed

Prof. Stefan Van Vaerenbergh

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Belgium

7

Aspects of risk of management in Brazilian microgravity experiments: a case study.

accepted

15'

no-show

Dr. Alessandro La Neve

Centro Universitário da FEI

Brazil

8

Deployable aerobraking Earth entry systems for recoverable microgravity experiments

accepted

15'

confirmed

Ms. Vera D'Oriano

University of Naples "Federico II"

Italy

9

Influence of wind gusts on micro-gravity quality in parabolic flights with single-engine aerobatic aircrafts

accepted

15'

confirmed

Prof. Antoni Perez-Poch

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech)

Spain

10

personal spaceflight payload standards

accepted

15'

no-show

Ms. Vatsala Khetawat

India

11

An Operational Test Bed for Microgravity Small Systems

accepted

15'

no-show

Mr. Sajjad Ghazanfarinia

Satellite Research Institute

Iran

12

Deployable structures demonstrator StrathSat-R: a second chance

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Thomas Parry

University of Strathclyde

United Kingdom

13

Thermocapillary Convection Experiment facility of an open cylindrical annuli for SJ-10 satellite

accepted

15'

Prof. Qi KANG

National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China