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session 3

Title: Microgravity Experiments from Sub-orbital to Orbital Platforms
type: oral
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: 2010-09-29
Time: 15:15
Room: Club B

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	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Flow stability experiments on the International Space Station	15	confirmed	Dr. Aleksander Grah	ZARM University of Bremen	Germany
2		the rapid solidification of aluminum 40 weight percent nickel using a drop tube apparatus	15	confirmed	Mr. Christopher Borowski	University of Alberta	Canada
3		Thermal destratification tests with liquid nitrogen in parabolic flights	15	confirmed	Mr. Jerome Lacapere	Air Liquide	France
4		Investigation of Slosh Events Using Existing SPHERES hardware on ISS platform	15	confirmed	Mr. Michael Vergalla	Florida Institute of Technology	United States
5		On thermal conduction of nanofluids by Q. Galand, S. Van Vaerenbergh	15	confirmed	Prof. Stefan Van Vaerenbergh	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
6		GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS IN PREPARATION OF HEAT PIPE EXPERIMENTS ONBOARD MIOSAT MICROSATELLITE	15	confirmed	Prof. Raffaele Savino	University of Naples "Federico II"	Italy
7		Post-flight data analysis of the BUGS experiment on sounding rocket REXUS-7	15	confirmed	Dr. Maria Libera Battagliere	University of Rome “La Sapienza”	Italy
8		Effect of Rounded Interior Corner on Capillary Flow	15		Prof. Qi KANG	National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.	China
9		development of static separator and microgravity experiment at zero-g parabolic flight	15		Dr. Junrong Li	Astronaut Center of China	China
10		Design and operating limits of the platform for acquisition of acceleration data (PAANDA)	15	confirmed	Prof. Marcelo C. Tosin	Universidade Estadual de Londrina	Brazil
11		an overview about brazilian microgravity missions	15	withdrawn	Mr. Flávio de Azevedo Corrêa Jr	Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE)	Brazil
12		A top-level summary of microgravity research which would benefit from commercial suborbital platforms and what the NASA Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) Program is doing to help	15	confirmed	Mr. Gregor Hanuschak	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States