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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: 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of Ti6Al4V samples shielded with nanotube array before and after being melted in miligravity conditions	15'	withdrawn	Ms.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