Three Decades of Space Activities at IDR/UPM
- Paper number
IAC-06-E4.4.03
- Author
Dr. Angel Sanz-Andres, Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad "Ignacio Da Riva"; IDR/UPM, Spain
- Coauthor
Dr. Jose Meseguer, IDR/UPM, Spain
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Strictly speaking, space related activities at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos (ETSIA) begun in 1973, when Prof. Ignacio Da Riva got a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to compile a handbook on spacecraft thermal control. By the same time, ESA issued an announcement of opportunities offering to the European scientific community the possibility of perform microgravity relevant experiments on board space platform like the European orbital laboratory Spacelab. Prof. Da Riva proposed one of the five selected experiments dealing with fluid physics under microgravity conditions, later flown on Spacelab-E1 in 1983. These two events were the starting point where Prof. Da Riva, full professor of Aerodynamics at ETSIA, nucleated a small group of young professors and students located at the Laboratorio de Aerodinámica y Mecánica de Fluidos (LAMF) of ETSIA. Such group leaded by Prof. Da Riva kept in space activities since its creation till 1991, when Prof. Da Riva died, and it was the seed of the more recently created research institute for aerospace science and technology named "Ignacio Da Riva" (IDR) in his honour. In this communication space related activities performed either at LAMF or IDR during the last three decades are briefly described.
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