Zero-Gravity Research - Purdue 1 - Purdue University

Steven Collicott, professor of aerospace engineering, was selected by NASA through a competitive national process to conduct a zero-gravity experiment during a Virgin Galactic suborbital space flight. Collicott will conduct an experiment that explores a difficult-to-model phenomenon. This research can help engineers exploit numerous liquid-solid combinations, such as new green propellants, in future spacecraft. The experiment will also highlight possible ways to automate such measurements in the future, and this automation enables cheaper launches of automated follow-up experiments. This will be Collicott’s first in-person experiment, after sending more than 10 automated experiments to space with Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, UP Aerospace and Exos Aerospace.

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