Space Grains

1. Launch (SpaceX) of Vip-Gran instrument on ISS Dec 2024
2. First series on-orbit operations (cells #1-17) 2025 – 2028
3. Second series on-orbit operations (cells #18-25) 2028 – 2031

A meeting was held to give recent news. In particular, the EQM (Engineering Qualification Model) of the VipGran instrument will be test in May 2024. The acceptance review will be done in June 2024, and the target launch is schedulded in December 2024 by SpaceX

A new meeting will be held on March 7th, 2023.

The aims of this on-line meeting is to clarify and to explain the operation of Vipgran instrument for ISS. The objective is to have the same understanding of the operation on the Science Team, USOC (CADMOS), and ESA.

Attendance: Science Team , CADMOS, and ESA

The Space Grains collaboration will use the Vip-Gran instrument during the 75th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, 19 – 30 April, 2021 at Novespace, Bordeaux (France)

The aim of the workshop is notably to prepare the 9th Parabolic Flight Campaign (PFC73) of the VIPGRAN instrument in November 2020. The workshop will be held in the zoom platform on July 21, 2020

The annual conference of the joint project GRANULOGY (Granular media in low-gravity environment) under  Europe (ESA) and China (CMSA/CSU) Space Science and Utilization collaboration program is hold on 13th and 14th of January 2020 at Institut of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China) with Chinese and European members of Space Grains.