We have undertaken a project called STARDUST which is a collaboration with Italian and American investigators. The goals of this program are to study the condensation and coagulation of refractory materials from the vapor and to study the properties of the resulting grains as analogs to cosmic dust particles. To reduce thermal convective currents and to develop valuable experience in designing an experiment for the Gas-Grain Simulation Facility aboard Space Station, Freedom we have built and flown a new chamber to study these processes under periods of microgravity available on NASA's KC-135 Research Aircraft. Preliminary results from flights with magnesium and zinc are discussed.
Cosmic dust analog simulation in a microgravity environment: The STARDUST program
1995-03-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Stardust: A Simulation Experiment of Cosmic Dust Analogues Production in Microgravity Conditions
British Library Online Contents | 1992
|STARDUST: Studies in microgravity of condensation and agglomeration of cosmic dust analogue
British Library Online Contents | 1992
|The Stardust Dust Flux Monitor
Online Contents | 2000
|Stardust Wild 2 Dust Measurements
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
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