Reduced gravity devices based on the yoyo principle
- Paper number
IAC-05-A2.3.08
- Author
Prof. Ryojiro Akiba, Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center, Japan
- Year
2005
- Abstract
For promoting the wide use of inexpensive zero-g facilities, a new device is developed based on the yoyo principle. The yoyo motion of a capsule enables to produce its successive rise and drop motion that create the reduced g environment inside the capsule. For the first step of its development, an indoor sized model was manufactured for the educational purposes. Its reduced g ranges the lunar and planetary surface g levels, worthy of its name “Ez-Space”. Further improvements are promising on its operational characteristics, such as the larger in its physical size of experiment volume and the higher g quality approaching to zero-g.
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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