session 5

Title: Facilities and Operations of Microgravity Experiments
type: oral
Description: This session is devoted to new diagnosis developments, new instruments definition and concepts for the future, ground and flight operation (telescience, robotics, hardware & software).
Date: 2009-10-14
Time: 15:00
Room: Technical Session #9

IPC members

Chairman: Mr. Thomas J. Sutliff, The Aerospace Corporation, United States;
Chairman: Prof. Rainer Willnecker, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Rapporteur: Dr. Peter Hofmann, OHB System AG - Munich, Germany;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	The 50 Parabolic Flight Campaigns of the European Space Agency to conduct Short Duration Microgravity Research Experimentation	15'	Dr. Vladimir Pletser	European Space Agency (ESA)	The Netherlands
2	Low Cost Suborbital Microgravity Payload Flight Opportunities in the XP Spaceplane	15'	Mr. Charles Lauer	Rocketplane Global, Inc.	United States
3	Development of Balloon-based Micro-gravity Experiment System	15'	Prof. Tatsuaki Hashimoto	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
4	Fluid Science Laboratory on-orbit operations on the ISS Columbus module: first experiences and lessons learned	15'	Mr. Giorgio Trinchero	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
6	SPACEMASTER – The Next Generation Telemetry Processing System for Space Applications	15'	Mrs. Angelika Diefenbach	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
7	MAPHEUS - The Maiden Flight of a New Vehicle for Microgravity Experiments	15'	Dr. Andreas Stamminger	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
8	Rate Control System for Sounding Rockets	15'	Mr. Josef Ettl	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
10	Low-cost sounding rocket for students by students	15'	Mr. Borja Hidalgo Jiménez	LEEM	Spain