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session 6

Title: Microgravity Sciences onboard the International Space Station and Beyond
Description: Aimed to the presentation of results obtained from large orbital platforms, in particular the ISS, as well as preparation scenarios for further long term flight opportunities. The session includes description and performance of ground and in-orbit infrastructures.
Date: 2010-10-01
Time: 09:00
Room: Club B

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Rodolfo Monti, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy;
Chairman: Dr. Kenol Jules, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Christoph Pütz, Astrium Space Transportation, Germany;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Italian Space Agency. The national Utilization of the International Space Station: 2001-2010 and beyond	15	withdrawn	Dr. Salvatore Pignataro	Italian Space Agency (ASI)	Italy
2		Experiments in Microgravity: the Indian Perspective.	15	confirmed	Mr. P R Goutham	PES School of Engineering	India
3		MELFI pool complete on board the ISS with third freezer tested in 2010	15	confirmed	Dr. Jean Cheganças	EADS Astrium	France
4		Operational results of the Materials Science Laboratory after one year in-orbit	15	confirmed	Mr. Patrick Hambloch	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
5		High Quality Protein Crystal Growth Experiment onbord “Kibo”	15	confirmed	Mr. Satoshi Sano	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
6		Shape memory epoxy foams for aerospace: experimentation on ISS	15	confirmed	Prof. Loredana Santo	University of Rome - Tor Vergata	Italy
7		investigation of marangoni convection in international space station	15	confirmed	Mr. Dhanuka(Dan) Wickramasinghe	University of Toronto	Canada
8		‘GeoFlow I and II’ - fluid physics experiments onboard ISS for modeling convection phenomena in Earth’ outer core and mantle	15	confirmed	Prof. Christoph Egbers	Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus-Senftenberg	Germany
9		IVIDIL experiment on the ISS	15	confirmed	Prof. Valentina Shevtsova	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
10		DSC (diffusion and Soret coefficients) on SODI MSG : towards full et of transport coefficients in ternary organic liquids mixtures	10		Prof. Stefan Van Vaerenbergh	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
11		Thermodiffusion of Binary and Ternary Fluid Mixture in the Reduced Gravity Environment of the International Space Station	10	confirmed	Prof. Ziad Saghir	Ryerson University	Canada
12		iris (image reversal in space) - the effects of microgravity on perception of depth-reversible figures	10	confirmed	Mr. Yuval Brodsky	European Space Agency (ESA)	Israel
13		SPEED: Small Payload Express Earth Delivery	10	confirmed	Mr. Joseph Carroll	Tether Applications, Inc.	United States