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The concept of a facility for cosmic dust research on the International Space StationA proposal for the development of a permanently operating facility for the experimental investigation of cosmic dust-related phenomena onboard the International Space Station (ISS) is presented. Potential applications for this facility are the convection-free nucleation of dust grains, studies of coagulation and aggregation phenomena in a microgravity environment, investigations of heat transport through, and dust emissions from, high-porosity cometary analogs, and experiments on the interaction of very fluffy dust grains with electromagnetic radiation and with low pressure gas flows. Possible extensions of such a facility are towards aerosol science and colloidal plasma research.
Document ID
19970018711
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Blum, Juergen
(Jena Univ. Germany)
Cabane, Michel
(Paris VI Univ. France)
Fonda, Mark
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Giovane, Frank
(Florida Univ. Gainesville, FL United States)
Gustafson, Bo A. S.
(Florida Univ. Gainesville, FL United States)
Keller, Horst U.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Aeronomie Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)
Markiewicz, Wojciech J.
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Aeronomie Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)
Levasseur-Regourd, Any-Chantal
(Paris VI Univ. Verrieres-le-Buisson, France)
Worms, Jean-Claude
(Paris VI Univ. Verrieres-le-Buisson, France)
Nuth, Joseph A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Rogers, Fred
(Desert Research Inst. Reno, NV United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1996
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation
Accession Number
97N20648
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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