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    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

    2014-09-30

    Time

    14:45

    Room

    810

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Prof. Ziad Saghir, Ryerson University, Canada;

    • Co-Chair: Prof. Raffaele Savino, Italy;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    PerWaves: Towards a Spaceflight Experiment to Realize Discrete Combustion Waves

    15'

    confirmed

    Prof. Andrew Higgins

    McGill University

    Canada

    2

    Cryofenix (Cryogenic sounding rocket experiment) progress and status

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. BIANCHI SEBASTIEN

    Air Liquide

    France

    3

    Preliminary Results from a Soret Effect Experiment onboard REXUS 16: Chemical Wave In Soret Effect (CWIS)

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Antonio Pugliese

    Stevens Institute of Technology

    United States

    4

    Measurement of Soret Coefficients for a Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixture in Low Gravity Environment

    15'

    no-show

    Prof. Ziad Saghir

    Ryerson University

    Canada

    5

    A comparison of the reflectivity of Ti6Al4V samples shielded with nanotube array before and after being melted in miligravity conditions

    15'

    withdrawn

    Ms. Elena Sorina Lupu

    Politechnic University of Bucharest

    Romania

    6

    Self Rewetting fluids heat transfer experiment SELENE

    15'

    confirmed

    Prof. Stefan Van Vaerenbergh

    Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Belgium

    7

    Aspects of risk of management in Brazilian microgravity experiments: a case study.

    15'

    no-show

    Dr. Alessandro La Neve

    Centro Universitário da FEI

    Brazil

    8

    Deployable aerobraking Earth entry systems for recoverable microgravity experiments

    15'

    confirmed

    Ms. Vera D'Oriano

    University of Naples "Federico II"

    Italy

    9

    Influence of wind gusts on micro-gravity quality in parabolic flights with single-engine aerobatic aircrafts

    15'

    confirmed

    Prof. Antoni Perez-Poch

    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech)

    Spain

    10

    personal spaceflight payload standards

    15'

    no-show

    Ms. Vatsala Khetawat

    India

    11

    An Operational Test Bed for Microgravity Small Systems

    15'

    no-show

    Mr. Sajjad Ghazanfarinia

    Satellite Research Institute

    Iran

    12

    Deployable structures demonstrator StrathSat-R: a second chance

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Thomas Parry

    University of Strathclyde

    United Kingdom

    13

    Thermocapillary Convection Experiment facility of an open cylindrical annuli for SJ-10 satellite

    15'

    Prof. Qi KANG

    National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    China