SOLIDIFICATION FURNACE FOR MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS ON SOUNDING ROCKETS DOI 10.5028/jatm.2012.04021412

Authors

  • Chen Ying An Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Cesar Boschetti Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Manuel Francisco Ribeiro Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Rafael Cardoso Toledo Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Filipe Estevão Freitas Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Felipe Fernandes Castilho Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil
  • Iraja Newton Bandeira Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais São José dos Campos/SP – Brazil

Keywords:

Microgravity, Suborbital lights, Solidification furnace, Alloys solidification.

Abstract

The Brazilian Microgravity Program is mainly based on experiments carried out on sounding rockets. Up to present days, three missions carrying a total of of experiments were made. In all flights, a fast solidi?cation furnace, capable of producing temperatures up to 900o C, was used to process metal and semiconductor alloys in microgravity environment. This paper has described the furnace and the solidification experiment made during the last parabolic flight, called Maracati Mission, which has occurred in December, 2010.

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Published

2012-09-13

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Communications