Developing technological knowledge in microgravity missions by matching partners expertise
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2013-07-09
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LA NEVE, A.
CORREA JUNIOR, F. DE A.
CORREA JUNIOR, F. DE A.
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European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
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LA NEVE, A.; CORREA JUNIOR, F. DE A. Developing technological knowledge in microgravity missions by matching partners expertise. European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, v. 721 SP.p. 193-200, jun. 2013.
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The article takes into account the cooperative work between Centro Universitário da FEI (FEI), Agênda Espacial Brasileira (AEB), Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), Instituto National de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) and Instituto de Aerondutica e Espaço (IAE) in the AEB Brazilian microgravity missions. It brings about some of the initial cares that were taken in order to better define and establish, in cooperation with the researchers, the onboard experiments for the sounding rockets (VS-30 and VSB-30) and for the International Space Station (ISS) by the establishing of researchers' reasonable requirements, by the definition of the payload/experiment interfaces and by the specification of the ground facilities needed for the experiment support. Inside this context, some mechanical, electronic and technical aspects of FEI experiments were analyzed to eventually assure a payload ready for a successful mission. The experiments that were sent on different missions by FEI were based on two main research lines-biotechnology and materials - for the study of enzymatic reactions and carbon nanotubes. This required that special devices be developed to perform the experiment in microgravity automatically. At each new flight an upgraded version of the device was implemented, based on the previous experience The article exploits some aspects of the design, development, assembling, test from missions of different characteristics (suborbital and orbital), and comments on what was learned in the process. This would finally lead to a know-how acquisition that resulted in a steady improvement of the projects in successive missions with microgravity experiments.