European parabolic flight campaigns with Airbus ZERO-G: Looking back at the A300 and looking forward to the A310

Pletser, Vladimir; Rouquette, Sebastien; Friedrich, Ulrike; Clervoy, Jean-François; Gharib, Thierry; Gai, Frederic; Mora, Christophe

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2015.05.022

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“…The research consortium to date, which includes the authors, has concentrated on unmanned sounding rocket and manned parabolic flights. The sounding rockets, with many minutes of microgravity time, are particularly suited to solidification studies at ~0 g. Parabolic flight campaigns, on the other hand, provide about 20s of microgravity per altitude parabola, but each such period is directly preceded by hypergravity periods of about the same duration but in which ~2g conditions are reached [9]; such flights are therefore suited to research on the effects of g variation on phenomena of interest. The current contribution selects some highlights from the ESA sounding rocket and parabolic flight campaigns.…”

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Overview of In Situ X-Ray Studies of Light Alloy Solidification in Microgravity

Browne

García‐Moreno

Nguyen-Thi

et al. 2017

The Minerals, Metals &Amp; Materials Series

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Gravity has significant effects on alloy solidification, primarily due to thermosolutal convection and solid phase buoyancy. Since 2004, the European Space Agency has been supporting investigation of these effects by promoting in situ X-ray monitoring of the solidification of aluminium alloys on microgravity platforms, on earth, and in periodically varying g conditions. The first microgravity experimentinvestigating foaming of liquid metalswas performed on board a sounding rocket, in 2008. In 2012 the first ever X-raymonitored solidification of a fully dense metallic alloy in space was achieved: the focus was columnar solidification of an Al-Cu alloy. This was followed in 2015 by a similar experiment, investigating equiaxed solidification. Ground reference experiments were completed in all cases. In addition, experiments have been performed on board parabolic flightswhere the effects of varying gravity have been studied. We review here the technical and scientific progress to date, and outline future perspectives.

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Overview of In Situ X-Ray Studies of Light Alloy Solidification in Microgravity

Browne

García‐Moreno

Nguyen-Thi

et al. 2017

The Minerals, Metals &Amp; Materials Series

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“…Parabelflüge sind seit Jahrzehnten zentraler Bestandteil jeder Forschungsaktivität in der Schwerelosigkeit [1][2][3][4] und gehören zu den regelmäßig genutzten Forschungsplattformen der Raumfahrtagenturen ESA (European Space Agency), CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales) und DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt). Mit etwa 200 wissenschaftlichen Parabelflugkampagnen und insgesamt über 17 000 Parabeln, einer Gesamtdauer der Schwerelosigkeit von mehr als 100 Stunden und mehr als 2000 wissenschaftlichen Experimenten an Bord [5] sind Parabelflüge in Europa das erfolgreichste Programm weltweit und eine treibende Kraft für die Forschung und die Raumfahrt [4].…”

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“…Mit etwa 200 wissenschaftlichen Parabelflugkampagnen und insgesamt über 17 000 Parabeln, einer Gesamtdauer der Schwerelosigkeit von mehr als 100 Stunden und mehr als 2000 wissenschaftlichen Experimenten an Bord [5] sind Parabelflüge in Europa das erfolgreichste Programm weltweit und eine treibende Kraft für die Forschung und die Raumfahrt [4]. Die einzigartigen Vorteile der Parabelflüge sind die sehr große Experimentfläche (100 m 2 an Bord des A310 ZERO-G), die Möglichkeit, als Wissenschaftler die Experimente selbst durchzuführen, die sehr breiten und flexiblen Möglichkeiten der Integration vielfältigster experimenteller Anforderungen und nicht zuletzt deren Regel mäßigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit [1][2][3][4]. Experimente auf Parabelflügen sind nicht nur "Vorstufen", Pilotexperimente oder Technologietests, sondern leisten einen wesentlichen eigenständigen Beitrag zur Forschung [6] und sind seit dem Mercury-Programm der NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) zentral für die bio medizinische Forschung unter reduzierter Schwerkraft [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

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Untersuchung und Beurteilung der Parabelflugtauglichkeit

Ullrich

Bühler

2019

Flug u Reisemed

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ZUSAMMENFASSUNGParabelflüge mit dem Airbus A310 ZERO-G gehören zu den wichtigsten europäischen Forschungsplattformen zur Erzeugung verminderter Schwerkraft (Weltraum, Mond oder Mars) zu Forschungs- oder Testzwecken. Seit 2015 ist auch die Teilnahme von Privatpersonen an Parabelflügen mit der A310 ZERO-G zulässig und möglich. Jeder Teilnehmer an einem Parabelflug muss sich zwingend einer medizinischen Untersuchung auf Parabelflugtauglichkeit unterziehen. Die vorgeschriebene Parabelflugtauglichkeitsuntersuchung entspricht hinsichtlich der anzuwendenden Entscheidungskriterien weder den Klasse-1- noch den Klasse-2-Tauglichkeitskriterien der EU/EASA, sondern stellt eine eigene Entität dar. Daher werden hier die aktuell gültigen Tauglichkeitsanforderungen und Abläufe für die Parabelflugtauglichkeit zusammengefasst und erörtert.

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“…During the campaigns, students work in close contact with well experienced European scientists and can carry out their research. After a three year hiatus from 2013 to 2015, a new cycle of the FYT programme has been launched and a parabolic flight campaign is planned for Autumn 2016 onboard the "new" A310 ZERO-G aircraft (Pletser et al 2015). This microgravity carrier allows university students to experience weightlessness, while having direct access to their experiment for operations during and between parabolas.…”

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Benefits of ESA Gravity-Related Hands-on Programmes for University Students’ Careers

Callens¹,

Galeone

2016

Microgravity Sci. Technol.

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The Education Office of the European Space Agency (ESA) offers university students, from ESA Member and Cooperating States, the opportunity to perform investigations in physical sciences, life sciences, and technology, under different gravity conditions through three educational programmes. The "Fly Your Thesis!" (FYT) programme makes use of parabolic flights and the "Drop Your Thesis!" (DYT) programme utilizes a drop tower as microgravity carriers, while the "Spin Your Thesis!" (SYT) programme uses a large centrifuge to create hypergravity. To date, more than hundred university students had the chance to participate in the design, development, and performance of one or more experiments during dedicated campaigns. In the following paper, we examine demographics of past participants of the ESA Education Office gravity-related opportunities over the past seven years and evaluate the benefits of these educational programmes for the participants' studies and careers. Student teams that participated in one of the programmes between 2009 and 2013 were contacted to fill in a questionnaire. The feedback from the students

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European parabolic flight campaigns with Airbus ZERO-G: Looking back at the A300 and looking forward to the A310

Cited by 31 publications

References 13 publications

Overview of In Situ X-Ray Studies of Light Alloy Solidification in Microgravity

Overview of In Situ X-Ray Studies of Light Alloy Solidification in Microgravity

Untersuchung und Beurteilung der Parabelflugtauglichkeit

Benefits of ESA Gravity-Related Hands-on Programmes for University Students’ Careers

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