Author Archives: ericfalcon2013

The Space Grains collaboration used the Vip-Gran instrument during the 69th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, 16 – 26 April, 2018 at Novespace, Bordeaux (France). Dynamics of Brownian-like particles moving in a thermalized granular gas has been investigated.

The workshop will be held in MSC laboratory, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, on 12-13 March 2018  to prepare the 6th Parabolic Flight Campaign (ESA PFC69) of the Vip-Gran instrument. ESA PFC69 campaign is scheduled from 16 to 27 April … Continue reading →

The Space Grains collaboration will use the Vip-Gran instrument during the 67th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, November 6 to November 16, 2017 at Novespace, Bordeaux (France)

The fourth parabolic flight campaign (PFC66) of the Vip-Gran instrument were performed in Bordeaux  (France) in May 2017. We observe for the first time a transition for rods between a gas-like regime of to a cluster-like regime when the density … Continue reading →

The Space Grains collaboration will use the Vip-Gran instrument during the 66th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, May 9 to May 19, 2017 at Novespace, Bordeaux (France)

The meeting is dedicated to prepare the 4th Parabolic Flight Campaign (ESA PFC66) of the Vip-Gran instrument. We will define the sets of parameters for the 3 flights of the PFC66 campaign scheduled from 9 to 20 May 2017. The … Continue reading →

The goal was to defined the ESR (Experimental Scientific Requirements) for the ISS prototype of the Vip-Gran instrument. Various cells have been defined, among them:    3D and 2D dry cells, Wet cell,  Sound cell, Shear cell…