Aspects of Cost Effective Platforms for Microgravity Experiments

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Jan 2002

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IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,

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The demand on scientific and technological experiments in a micro-gravity environment is increasing regarding to the number of users and applications. It is well known that a micro-gravity environment allows the production of high homogeneous crystals, new metal alloys, electronic chips, bio-materials etc. A wide variety of platforms has been developed in the last thirty years, and are actually available to be used for micro-gravity experiments. A high quality micro-gravity environment can be established with drop towers for parabolic aircraft flight, drop capsules from stratospheric balloons, sounding rockets, artificial recoverable satellites, orbiting space stations and free flyers, ranging from seconds to months of duration. Nevertheless the choice of the best adequate platform to carry out micro-gravity experiments is a question of the necessary exposure time and operation cost. However not alone the cost should be the decision point, but also the availability of the platform is an important requirement imposed by users. The article summarises the results obtained in a study on the competitiveness, regarding time, cost and availability of several platforms to produce μg-conditions, highlights requirements imposed by users of scientific and technological experiments, and shows the actually operational vehicles, indicating their technical and operational characteristics.

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