session 3

Title: Microgravity Experiments from Sub-Orbital to Orbital Platforms
Description: This session presents recent results of microgravity experiments from all disciplines using different microgravity platforms, including drop towers, parabolic aircrafts, sounding rockets and capsules.
Date: 2012-10-02
Time: 15:15
Room: TS05 (Sala Betelgeus, Hall 2)

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Ziad Saghir, Ryerson University, Canada;
Chairman: Prof. Raffaele Savino, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy;
Rapporteur: Prof. Vladimir Pletser, Blue Abyss, United Kingdom;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Experimental studies on the withdrawal of bubble-free propellant by using Propellant Management Devices (PMDs) under compensated gravity	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Kay Burow	ZARM University of Bremen	Germany
2		Dimensional Scaling of Quenching for Flame Propagation in Random Media	accepted	15'	confirmed	Ms. Caroline Wagner	McGill University	Canada
3		Material physics rocket MAPHEUS: Development, launch and research	accepted	15'	withdrawn	Mr. Martin Siegl	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
4		A BRIEF BUT POIGNANT FLIGHT IN SPACE: THE MASER-12 SOUNDING ROCKET	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. antonio verga	ESA	The Netherlands
5		An observation of diffusion process in microgravity by Mach-Zehnder Interferometer	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Li DUAN	National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.	China
6		Preliminary results of MASER12-XRMON experiment on sounding rocket devoted to the X-ray radiographic observation of growth process under microgravity	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Guillaume Reinhart	Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS	France
7		Some experimental progresses in the study of self-reweting fluids for the SELENE experiment to be carried in the Thermal Platform 1 hardware	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Stefan Van Vaerenbergh	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
8		A Systematic Microgravity Testing Approach to Advance the Technology Readiness Level of On-Orbit Propellant Depots	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Nathan Silvernail	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	United States
9		Cloud manipulation system: thermal characterization and drop tower experiment	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Anselmo Cecere	Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”	Italy
10		Reaction control of multi degrees of freedom space manipulators: theory and simulated microgravity tests	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Stefano Zampierin	CISAS "G. Colombo" - University of Padova	Italy
11		The PROGRA2 project: Optical properties of solid grains obtained during microgravity parabolic flights, for the interpretation of remote sensing measurements	accepted	15'	withdrawn	Dr. Jean-Baptiste RENARD	CNRS	France
12		Mixing of liquids by vibrations - preparation of the VIPIL experiment on the ISS	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Valentina Shevtsova	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
13		Microgravity testing of uahuntsville's chargersat-1	accepted	Poster	confirmed	Mr. Justin Riegel	Univeristy of Alabama in Huntsville	United States
14		MAIUS - A rocket-borne test of an atom interferometer with a chip-based atom laser	accepted	Poster	confirmed	Dr. Stephan Seidel	Leibniz Universiät Hannover	Germany
15		Results of REXUS12’s SUAINEADH experiment: Deployment of a spinning space web in micro gravity conditions	accepted	Poster	confirmed	Mr. Thomas Sinn	University of Strathclyde/Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory	United Kingdom
16		Microgravity Effects on the Electrochemical Oxidation of Ammonia: A parabolic flight experiment	accepted	Poster		Mr. Carlos Poventud-Estrada	University of Puerto Rico, NASA Harriet Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship	Puerto Rico
17		Metallic aggregations in low gravity.	accepted	Poster	withdrawn	Dr. R. J. Slobodrian	University	Canada