Sentences with phrase «microgravity experiments»

At the University of Havana, Ernesto Altshuler spends pennies on his microgravity experiments — and gets million - dollar results.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

As well as providing a means of contactless transport for delicate biological cells and electronics, or dangerous materials, sound control could enable microgravity experiments at low cost.

Giant crystals and spherical flames — science in microgravity The International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity experiments have been under way for decades.

During this time, Shear helped develop the HYDROS water - electrolysis propulsion system at Tethers Unlimited and led a microgravity experiment on the Weightless Wonder parabolic aircraft.

After three meetings this month, the fledgling club has reviewed projects flown in the CLOµDS 2011 campaign, performed ground - based trials of their teachers» experiments, and began the process of brainstorming to create their very own microgravity experiment that will fly in the 2012 campaign.

Not exact matches

CASIS's mission is to encourage «use of this unparalleled platform for innovation» — and Merck is taking this to heart by experimenting with drug development in the realm of microgravity.

Since 2007, a multi-institutional team working at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity in Bremen, Germany, has dropped its reusable cold atom experiments down a 146 - meter tower into a bed of polystyrene pellets.

Companies developing things that could benefit from experiments in microgravity, such as biotechnology and new materials, are not flying them currently because they would need to wait years and pay a high price to put them on the ISS, says Gold.

Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, has already bought seats on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for two of its scientists at $ 200,000 a pop, allowing them to carry out trial experiments in microgravity.

The University of Washington (UW), Seattle, undergraduates are inside a KC - 135 microgravity research airplane, running a self - designed experiment in a lab that flies in a sinusoidal wave pattern to mimic the weightlessness of space.

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

Experiments on Earth using microgravity have shown that stem cells — the master cells that produce all organ and tissue cell types — will grow faster, compared to conventionally grown cells.

The hard drive contained data from the CVX - 2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment, designed to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

He notes that the experiment could have only worked in microgravity, to prevent the xenon from settling under its feather - light weight.

By now, European astronauts had hoped to be established in their space laboratory called Columbus, where they would be melting and solidifying conductive metals, studying microgravity effects on single - celled organisms, investigating human balance disorders, and carrying out dozens of other experiments.

They will be used in a variety of medical experiments to assess the effects of microgravity on the body.

These experiments will help biologists understand how plants respond to microgravity, which will improve efforts aimed at growing food in space — a crucial component of long - duration missions to Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

Experiments included studies of the microgravity environment, such as growing protein crystals, and studying the basic properties of flames and liquids.

Once they're in orbit, we quadruple the volume where they can do experiments in microgravity.»

Reexamining data from his 20 - year - old NASA experiment involving the repeated freezing and melting of high - purity materials in microgravity, Martin Glicksman, research professor in materials science and the Allen Henry Chair at Florida Institute of Technology, working with Kumar Ankit at the School of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University, discovered the way nature guides formation of complex patterns in materials that crystallize.

The Nature Communications study was inspired by simple experiments conducted in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.

The European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) is a platform carrying equipment for experiments in microgravity.

That's because experiments conducted on the International Space Station involving cells that line the inner surfaces of blood vessels (endothelial cells) show that microgravity accelerates cardiovascular disease and the biological aging of these cells.

Microgravity, of course, adds many challenges to otherwise simple experiments, and that's why an engineer is needed.

The team also has to grapple with time constraints: They will have just 22 seconds of microgravity to conduct experiments that take 8 minutes on Earth.

The prize: the opportunity to perform their experiments aboard an Airbus A300 Zero - G aircraft that will take off from Bordeaux, France, during ESA's 51st Microgravity Research Campaign next November.

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.

Another experiment that works particularly well in microgravity is protein crystallization, which researchers use to reveal protein structure and design new pharmaceuticals.

«The Medaka experiment finding of new genes affected by microgravity provides a good animal model to clarify this mechanism.»

The APEX - 06 experiment investigates the growth of the common grass species Brachypodium distachyon in the microgravity environment of space.

NASA's EcAMSat small satellite experiment may reveal how to more effectively fight bacteria in microgravity.

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).

One mission of the Microbial Observatory Experiments on the International Space Station is to examine the traits and diversity of fungal isolates, to gain a better understanding of how fungi may adapt to microgravity environments and how this may affect interactions with humans in closed habitats.

Scheduled to launch in 2018 during «Horizons,» Alexander Gerst's second science mission as a European Space Agency astronaut, «Bake in Space» will experiment with a specialty bread dough in a microgravity oven to bake in orbit for the first time ever.

They worked so hard for the past few months, and finally, Jonathan Grom, Kathy Litman and Dave West could fly their experiment in microgravity.

As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we've recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.

NASA Glenn RC, Ohio, USA, Materials Science, Microgravity Science, Project Scientist, Project Manager Spacelab and ISS experiments, retired 9 years.

In - space fabrication will be getting an update with a brand new HP 3D printer made for microgravity, but also an experiment in sintering - based additive manufacturing.