N° 26–1995: ESA parabolic flight competition for students Selected experiments

7 July 1995

At the closing date of the ESA parabolic flight competition for students, no less than 58 interesting and valid proposals for experiments were received from all over Europe. The proposals confirm the high interest in Space science and technology among students and also their good understanding of the Space environment and its capabilities.

The Selection Jury, under the chairmanship of ESA astronaut Wubbo Ockels, had a difficult task in selecting those experiments best adapted to be flown on the second parabolic flight for university students organised by ESA with the support of the Society of Space Engineering Students of the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) and of the Commission of the European union in the framework of the Second European Week for Scientific and Technological Culture in November 1995 (20-24 November 1995).

After considerations such as the high scientific value, novelty and motivation of all the proposals received, the Jury selected the 23 experiments which are listed in the table attached to this information note.

A limited number of places for journalists will be available on the parabolic flights for students. Journalists interested in obtaining more information concerning the respective experiments proposals or who would like to fly with the students should contact the ESA Public Relations Division at ESA Headquarters in Paris :

Tel (33.1)53.69.71.55
Fax (33.1)53.69.76.90.

Country	Experiment	Team	University

Austria	Focussed by Air	Manuel Reiter	Linz University
		Robert Holzer

Belgium	Capillary effects in two phases	Nicolas Boseret	Brussels university
	flow in porous media for enhanced	Eric Istasse
	oil recovery and contaminant in
	soil transport modelling

France	Behaviour of a mables heap in	Guillaume Faure	ENSAE Toulouse
	microgravity	Olivier Savin

	Marangoni effects with	Chrystel Frenois	Toulouse Uiv. and ENSEEG
	experimental confirmation of	Laurent Catanier	in collaboration with
	thermovibrational convection in a	Giovanni Alterio	Naples University
	fluid cell

	Structural relaxation in	Benedicte Friot	Rennes University
	microgravity	Christophe le Deit

Germany	Capillary waves without disturbing	Christian Berg	Bergische University Wuppertal
	effects of gravity	Tamim Sidili

	Wilding in microgravity	Thomas Kluge	Technische Hochschule Aachen
		Olivier Kropla

	Solidification of hypermonotectic	Stefan Hofacker	Cologne University
	Al-Pb-Bi alloys in aerogel	Gugrun Korekt
	crucibles (reflight)

	3-dim Visibility of magnetic field	Lutz Kunath and team	Technical University of Berlin

	Microgravity as a release of	Wolfgang Nuemann	Munster university in collaboration
	nastic reactions explored on		with Bonn universit
	the example of rapid leaf
	movements by Mimosa pudica

Italy	Orbital Simulation Model	Zaky El Hamel	Naples University
		Paolo Sabatini

	Modes of vibration and Control	Luca Soli	Milan University
	of bobbing on a tethered system	Danielle innorta

	Experimental confirmation of	Massimo Piccirillo	Naples University
	thermovibrational convection in	Achille Cicala
	a fluid cell

Netherlands	Wave-movements in a free	Evert-Jan de Theije	Nijmegen University in
	hanging rope without	Femke de Theije	collaboration with Eindhoven
	gravitational force	Koen Koutstaal	University

	Test of the Rapunzel deployer and	Michiel Kruijf	Delft University in
	the Star Track project	Eric-Jan van der Heide	collaboration with Munchen
		Dieter Sabath	University
		Manfred Krischke

	Artificial Cat		Delft University

Norway	Visual gravity by measurements	Laurent van Ham	Delft University
	experiments/Space table	Bjorn Ottar Elseth

Poland	Diffusion flames in hyper- and	Piotr Podobinski	Warsaw University
	microgravity	Ahmed Abatorab

Switzerland	Study of a liquid mirror under	Alexandre Cuva	Geneva University
	microgravity

United Kingdom	Investigation into the behaviour	F.J. Bell	Grammar School Guilford
	of invertabrates in microgravity

	Fabrication of metal matrix	Jason Maroothynaden	Imperial College London
	composite in microgravity

	Thin Liquid film experiment	Thomas Gribovski	Utah State University in
		Raghuram Tumkur	collaboration with Mullard
			Space Science Laboratory Surrey