Solidification experiment in mirror furnaces flown in a GAS payload on space shuttle STS-108

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Aug 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003esasp.530..113h&link_type=abstract

In: 16th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, 2 - 5 June 2003, Sankt Gallen, Switzerlan

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Space Materials: Physics

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The experiment was excellent performed in the self-contained GAS payload G-730, flown on STS-108 Endeavour in December 2001. The payload was designed and developed by Swedish Space Corporation. The intention with the experiment was to investigate the influence of weak convection, caused by surface tension forces, on radial segregation occurring in crystals grown under microgravity conditions. The geometry studied was a Bridgman configuration with a partially coated surface. Seven mirror furnaces were used to process glass-coated samples with slots in the coating of different widths. The furnaces were controlled by a PC/104 computer system where also all data from the flight was stored.

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