Solidification Furnace for Microgravity Experiments on Sounding Rockets

• Autor(a) principal: An,Chen Ying
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Boschetti,Cesar, Ribeiro,Manuel Francisco, Toledo,Rafael Cardoso, Freitas,Filipe Estevão, Castilho,Felipe Fernandes, Bandeira,Iraja Newton
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-91462012000200237
• topic: Microgravity; Suborbital flights; 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 25 experiments were made. In all flights, a fast solidification 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.