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Fly me to ... a lunar parabola


51st PFC Nov 2009
 


Participants of the parabolic flight symposium
 


Wings for discovery
 
ESA's parabolic flight campaign manager Vladimir Pletser at the
 


1st ESA\ Parabolic Flight Campagne Group in 1984
 


Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy at the symposium with F. Duclos
 


Lunar parabolas and martian gravity
 
Zero-G Airbus A300 for parabolic flights
 
Since 1997, the 'Zero-G' Airbus A300 - the world's largest for parabolic flights - has been used by ESA, CNES, DLR and industrial customers to provide repeated microgravity periods of up to 20 seconds for research purposes. It is managed by Novespace, a subsidiary of CNES. ESA runs typically two parabolic campaigns annually. Scientists are regularly invited to submit experiment proposals for review and selection by peers.



Release date: 1 February 2010