| タイトル | An Overview of the Electrostatic Levitation Facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 著者（英） | Savage, Larry; Rogers, Jan R.; Robinson, Michael B.; Huie, Doug; Soellner, Wolfgang |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 1998-01-01
1998 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | Containerless processing represents an important area of research in microgravity materials science. This method provides access to the metastable state of an undercooled melt. Containerless processing provides a high-purity environment for the study of reactive, high-temperature materials. Reduced gravity affords several benefits for containerless processing, for example greatly reduced positioning forces are required and therefore samples of greater mass can be studied. Additionally in reduced gravity, larger specimens will maintain spherical shape which will facilitate modeling efforts. Space Systems/LORAL developed an Electrostatic Containerless Processing System (ESCAPES) as a materials science research tool for investigations of refractory solids and melts. ESCAPES is designed for the investigation of thermophysical properties, phase equilibria, metastable phase formation, undercooling and nucleation, time-temperature- transformation diagrams and other aspects of materials processing. These capabilities are critical to the research programs of several Principal Investigators supported by the Microgravity Materials Science Program of NASA. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) recently acquired the ESCAPES system from LORAL. MSFC is now developing a levitation facility to provide a critical resource to the microgravity materials science research community to continue and enhance ground-based research in the support of the development of flight experiments during the transition to Space Station. |
| NASA分類 | Ground Support Systems and Facilities (Space) |
| 権利 | Copyright |
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