Future Materials Science Research on the International Space Station (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 Microgravity Research and the Space Station Furnace Facility Core
1 Microgravity Research and the Space Station Furnace Facility Core
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Specifically, the five main areas of research within the MRD are biotechnology, combustion science, fluid physics, fundamental physics, anct materials science. The microgravity environment of space provides a unique opportunity to further our unclerstancting of various materials phenomena involving the molten, Buictic, anct gaseous states by reducing or eliminating buoyancy-c/riven convection effects.
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The anticipated results of microgravity materials-science research range from establishing baselines for funciamental materials processes to generating results with more direct commercial significance. NASA's objectives for the microgravity materials-science program inclucle: · advancing our knowlecige base for all classes of materials · designing and facilitating the execution of microgravity experiments that will help achieve this goal · determining react maps for future microgravity studies · contributing to NASA's Human Exploration anct Development of Space enterprise · contributing to the national economy by cleveloping enabling technologies valuable to the U.S.
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and Microgravity Research Opportunities for the 1990s (NRC, 19951.~ Basecl on the input from these conferences anct reports, the DWG iclentifiect fundamental physical anct chemical phenomena research areas that it believect would benefit from long-cluration microgravity conditions. Promising subjects for investigation iclentifiect by the DWG incluclect: · nucleation anct metastable states · prediction anct control of microstructure, pattern formation, anct morphological stability · phase separation anct interfacial phenomena · transport phenomena 1NASA also supports some in-house research through the University Space Research Association, but these activities follow a separate funding process and were not reviewed by the current committee.
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SPACE STATION FURNACE FACILITY CORE CAPABILITY The SSFF was conceived to provide a set of common services that would support a wicle range of high-temperature microgravity materials-science experiments on the ISS. NASA defines the purpose of the SSFF as follows: The purpose of the Space Station Furnace Facility project is to provide a modular facility for materials research in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station.
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The SSFF Core concept was initially clevisect cluring the late 1980s anct early 1990s, basect on recommendations from the DWG; the SSFF Intercenter Science Advisory Panel, which consisted of two representatives from the NASA Langley Research Center, one from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, anct one from the NASA let Propulsion Laboratory; five public workshops hosted by the Marshall Space Flight Center; anct a stucly by Teleclyne Brown, a hardware fabricator for NASA with headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama. The SSFF Science Working Group (SWG)
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Core with experiment modules. Source: Microgravity Research Program Office, Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Source: Microgravity Research Program Office, Marshall Space Flight Center. 30 percent of the year.
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or if IR operation exceeds maximum allowoct payloact disturbance levels. ARIS will require approximately 2.5 cm of rattle space between racks anct approximately 8 cm of floating space at the top of the racks.
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