session 3
- Title
Microgravity Experiments from Sub-orbital to Orbital Platforms
- type
oral
- 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
2008-09-30
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Chairman: Prof. Ziad Saghir, Ryerson University, Canada;
Chairman: Prof. Raffaele Savino, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy;
Rapporteur: Prof. Vladimir Pletser, Blue Abyss, United Kingdom;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 15:00 | Metal Foam Experiment with X-ray Diagnostics and its Flight on the Microgravity Rocket Maser 11 | presentation | Mr. Per Holm | Sweden | ||
2 | 15:00 | presentation | Mr. Jerome Pearson | Star Technology and Research, Inc. | United States | ||
3 | 15:00 | Achievements in ESA's Physical Science Programme: basic research and applications. | presentation | Dr. Marc Heppener | European Space Agency (ESA) | France | |
4 | 15:00 | FSL Experiment GeoFlow for Geophysical Motivated Convective Phenomena | presentation | Prof. Christoph Egbers | Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus-Senftenberg | Germany | |
5 | 15:00 | European-Russian joint experiments on semiconductor crystal growth aboard the Foton-M3 | presentation | Dr. Alexander Senchenkov | Research and Development Institute for Launch Complexes (NIISK) | Russian Federation | |
6 | 15:00 | MARANGONI HEAT PIPES: AN EXPERIMENT ONBARD MIOSAT ITALIAN MICROSATELLITE | presentation | Prof. Raffaele Savino | University of Naples "Federico II" | Italy | |
7 | 15:00 | presentation | Dr. Sven Reutzel | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) | Germany | ||
8 | 15:00 | investigation of evaporation process of drop on plate under microgravity conditions | presentation | Prof. Jingchang Xie | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | |
9 | 15:00 | presentation | Dr. Silvio Cocuzza | CISAS – “G. Colombo” Center of Studies and Activities for Space, University of Padova | Italy | ||
10 | 15:00 | presentation | Mr. Douglas Comstock | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | United States | ||
12 | 15:00 | Aerobatic Flight: an innovative access to microgravity from a centennial sport | discussion | Prof. Antoni Perez-Poch | Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) | Spain |