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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.

    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;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    Development of “Emu” opensource high altitude balloon for microgravity experimentation

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. James Dingley

    University of Western Australia (UWA)

    Australia

    3

    Opportunities for Microgravity and Hypergravity Experiments under the United Nations Access to Space for All Initiative: Achievements in 2019-2020

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Aimin NIU

    United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

    Austria

    4

    Leveraging Microgravity to Investigate Earth- and Space-Based Centrifugal Casting of Wax

    10

    confirmed

    Dr. Javier Stober

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    United States

    5

    REORIENTATION OF FUEL COMPONENTS TO ENSURE RESTARTING OF THE MAIN ENGINE: CALCULATION METHODS, NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Ihor Siedykh

    Yuzhnoye State Design Office

    Ukraine

    6

    Space Experiments of Evaporation and Condensation Process Onboard Chinese TZ-1 Cargo Spacecraft

    10

    confirmed

    Prof. Qiu-Sheng Liu

    Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    China

    8

    The effect of thermocapillary convection on PCM melting in microgravity: results and expectations

    10

    confirmed

    Mr. Pablo Salgado Sanchez

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    Spain