DECLIC- a facility for Telescience operations
- Paper number
IAC-05-A2.5.02
- Author
Mr. Gérard Cambon, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
- Year
2005
- Abstract
DECLIC (Dispositif pour l' Etude de la Croissance et des LIquides Critiques) is a project dedicated to the scientific study of transparent materials and fluids structure formation in microgravity environment. The research program is divided into two main parts: - Study of fluids near the critical point at near-ambient temperature and up to 450°C, Study of transparent alloys ,succinonitile base,submitted to various thermal gradient and growth velocity, during the directional solidification. The flight instrument is integrated in an EXPRESS rack inside the US-Lab of the International Space Station (ISS). The Telescience concept is to remotely operate the on-board instrument from the ground, using the standard communication links that have been developed between NASA, ESA and the different european USOCs.
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