Sentences with phrase «microgravity tests»

Microgravity tests on birds, sea urchins, amphibians and fish have proven inconclusive.

«Gecko grippers get a microgravity test flight.»

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For this first flight, astronauts will just test that the technology works in microgravity by analysing the genomes of bacteria, viruses and mice.

The UW team's experiment, Lohrmeyer explains, was designed to test the feasibility of making precision machine parts in microgravity.

It used past NASA funding to test a prototype and several commercial 3D printers during two hours worth of stomach - churning aircraft dives meant to simulate microgravity.

«The microgravity environment of the International Space Station is now being used for myriad lines of research, for example: vaccine development, finding novel molecular targets against drug - resistant pathogens, and testing of molecules to be used against osteoporosis or cancer,» Zea says.

To test this, Japanese researchers freeze - dried mouse sperm and sent it up to the ISS, where it spent nine months orbiting the Earth in microgravity.

ACE - M - 1 testing will take advantage of the microgravity environment of station to study how microscopic particles spread out and clump together in gels and creams.

AFEx will test whether under conditions of microgravity Indy flies exhibit less change in behavior than wildtype or «normal» control flies.

Vaquer designed experiments to test the behavior of drugs in microgravity during his spare time, while he was working in the lab of pharmacologist Rafael de la Torre at IMIM, focusing on a family of membrane proteins called ABC transporters.

This investigation also determines the feasibility of developing improved pharmaceuticals in microgravity using a new method to test the metabolic impacts of drug compounds.

The first stage of the plan — which is already underway — focuses on testing technologies and studying the impact of long - duration missions and microgravity on human health through experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The team has already been working on microgravity 3D printing tests for the space agency and now they'll be creating a 3D printer for use on the International Space Station starting next fall — the first device to manufacture parts in space.