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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: 2024-10-16
Time: 15:00
Room: White Hall 1

IPC members

Co-Chair: Prof. Raffaele Savino, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy;
Co-Chair: Prof. Rainer Willnecker, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Rapporteur: Prof. Vladimir Pletser, Blue Abyss, United Kingdom;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Centrifugal casting of wax-based fuel grains in microgravity: Preliminary results from a sub-orbital launch	12	confirmed	Dr. Scott Dorrington	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	15:12	Electrodynamic Regolith Conveyor Sub-Orbital Flight Experiment	12	confirmed	Dr. Aaron Olson	NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center	United States
3	15:24	Impulse-Free Release Mechanism and Test Setup for Robotic Free-Floating Experiments on Parabolic Flights	12	confirmed	Mr. Philip Arm	ETHZ	Switzerland
4	15:36	Welding Under Microgravity Conditions: Experimental Rationale, Background, and Approach by the Universidad Central de Venezuela Team, Awardee of the 2024 DropTES	12	confirmed	Ms. Diana Usuga	Central University of Venezuela (UCV)	Venezuela
5	15:48	Pulsating Heat Pipe Laboratory Tests for a Microgravity Sub-Orbital Experiment	12	confirmed	Ms. Larissa Krambeck	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina UFSC	Brazil
6	16:00	Magnetic Surface Stress Pump Development under Microgravity Conditions for Satellite Thermal Management	12	confirmed	Mr. Thomas Imhuelse	ZARM, University of Bremen	Germany
7	16:12	Scientific results of FerrAS - Innovations in Ferrofluid Pumping Systems for Microgravity Applications	12	confirmed	Mr. Frederik Junker	KSat e.V.	Germany
8	16:24	Enhancing spacecraft performance through in-space microvibration measurements	12	confirmed	Mr. Tim Gust	Hochschule Bremen	Germany
9	16:36	SubOrbital Express - The real Ride-Share Solution for Sounding Rocket Missions	12	confirmed	Mr. Stefan Krämer	Swedish Space Corporation	Sweden
10	16:48	suborbital inexpensive rocket (sir) – overview of the project results and further development plan of perun suborbital rocket	12	confirmed	Dr. Adam Matusiewicz	SpaceForest	Poland
11	17:00	Parameter Identification using Microgravity Experiments on Asteroid-Related Scenarios	12	confirmed	Mr. Samuele Vaghi	Politecnico di Milano	Italy