Instrument operations onboard ISS May 2023

  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
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Vipgran Status Meeting, February 2nd, 2023

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.

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Operations of Vipgran instrument – June 16, 2022

The aims of this on-line meeting is to clarify and explain the operation activities and interface of Vipgran instrument on board ISS, following up the meeting organised in April 2022.

Attendance: Science Team, CADMOS, ESA

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Operation of VIPGRAN instrument – April 4, 2022

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

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10th Parabolic Flight Campaign for Vip-Gran – April 2021

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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)

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9th Parabolic Flight Campaign for Vip-Gran – Nov. 2020

A310zeroGThe Space Grains collaboration used the Vip-Gran instrument during the 73th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign from 26 October to 5 November 2020, Paderborn (Germany)

73rd ESA PFC during Covid-19

73rd ESA PFC during Covid-19 pandemic ©Novespace

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Space Grains TT Meeting, July 2020

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

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Granulogy project annual meeting (ESA – CMSA/CSU collaboration) – Janv. 2020

IOPlogoThe 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.

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8th Parabolic Flight Campaign for Vip-Gran – Nov. 2019

A310zeroGThe Space Grains collaboration will use the Vip-Gran instrument during the 72th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, 18 – 29 November, 2019 at Novespace, Bordeaux (France)

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Space Grains TT Meeting at Granada (Spain), 26 Sept. 2019

A Space Grains Topical Team meeting was held in Granada (Spain) during the 26th ELGRA Symposium. Discussions mainly concerned the progress on the prototype and flight models of the Vip-Gran instrument.

 

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