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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: 2025-10-01
Time: 15:00
Room: Room C4.2

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	The SubOrbital Express Program:\\ Advancing Microgravity Research through International Collaboration	15		Mr. Stefan Krämer	Swedish Space Corporation	Sweden
2	15:15	Opportunities for hypergravity and microgravity experimentation under the United Nations Access to Space for All Initiative: Achievements in 2024-2025	15		Dr. Jorge Del Rio Vera	United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs	Austria
3	15:30	Microgravity Experiments for N-body Codes Validation in the Asteroid Environment	15		Mr. Samuele Vaghi	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
4	15:45	Status update of the FERMIUM project	15		Dr. Benny Rievers	ZARM, University of Bremen	Germany
5	16:00	Viability of active entanglement gripper technology in microgravity	15		Mr. Jacek Grzegorzewski	Wroclaw University of Science and Technology	Poland
6	16:15	HEMERA: Overview and first results of in-orbit experiments of the HiveR Rover for Future Lunar Mobility	15		Mr. Maximilian von Unwerth	NEUROSPACE GmbH	Germany
7	16:30	Design and Development of a Centrifugal Casting Experiment for the On-Orbit Manufacturing of Wax-Based Propellants	15		Dr. Scott Dorrington	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
8	16:45	Applied Bubble Physics Uncovered in Microgravity	15		Prof. Danail Obreschkow	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia
9	17:00	parabolic flight investigation of fluid transfer, sloshing, and docking for in-space refueling	15		Mr. Divyam Paliwal	OrbitAID Aerospace Private Limited	India
*		Drop tower-based gene delivery technology combining gravity changes and electroporation for cell therapy	15		Dr. Younghoon Lee	Space LiinTech	Korea, Republic of
*		Monitoring Vital Signs in Pre-, In-Flight, and Post-Parabolic Flight Phases: Implications for Space Applications	15	confirmed	Prof. Avid Roman-Gonzalez	Asociacion Civil Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades	Peru