The flight of the Monodisperse Latex Reactor (MLR), sponsored by the Office of Space Science and Applications (OSSA), marks the beginning of an approach to systematically use the STS for materials processing experimentation. The MLR experiment has been approved for a series of four flights on the STS. The first of these flights will be on STS-3. The MLR is designed to be accommodated inside the Orbiter cabin in the mid-deck area. It is carried in place of three regular crew storage lockers. The MLR flights will study various critical parameters required to understand the mechanism of large particle size monodisperse latex formation using seed latex. Operation of the MLR is initiated by the on-board crew with the process itself operating automatically until completed. The objectives of the MLR mission are to demonstrate the capability of the MLR system to support experiments in the Orbiter mid-deck area and to operate the MLR to study the kinetics of chemical reactions without the effects of buoyance
Monodisperse Latex Reactor (MLR) Prelaunch Mission Operation Report
1982
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
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