Parabolic flights Vladimir Pletser

1 parabolic flights

1.1 esa research , student campaigns
1.2 brussels , belgium student campaigns
1.3 participation in other campaigns
1.4 number of experiments , parabolas
1.5 world record number of aircraft in parabolic flight

parabolic flights

from 1985 till 2016, pletser responsible of esa aircraft parabolic flight campaigns short duration microgravity experiments.

esa research , student campaigns

he organized , led 65 esa microgravity research campaigns physical, life sciences , technology experiments nasa’s kc-135/930 1985 1988, cnes’s caravelle 1989 1995, russian gagarin cosmonaut training center’s ilyushin il-76mdk in 1994, dutch nlr cessna citation ii in 2001, cnes-esa’s airbus a300 zero-g  · 1997 2014, , airbus a310 zero-g since 2015. in 2011 , 2012, organized , led cnes , dlr first 2 joint european partial-g parabolic flight campaign research @ moon , mars gravity levels  · airbus a300 zero-g.

from 1994 2006, took part in organization , flights of 8 esa student campaigns cnes’s caravelle in 1994, nasa’s kc-135/931 in 1995 , airbus a300 zero-g 2000 2006. since 2010, participates in esa s ‘fly thesis [1]’ programme , inviting european university students submit experiment proposals related thesis research. selected experiments take part research campaigns.

brussels , belgium student campaigns

in 2002, initiated new project in belgium, have secondary school students flying in weightlessness during esa student campaigns. collaborating region of brussels-capital , euro space society, organized contest secondary schools in brussels inviting students propose experiments realized in microgravity. 5 teams of brussels secondary schools took part in third esa student campaign in july 2003 aboard airbus a300 zero-g operating first time out of france , landing in brussels. pedagogical project encountered such large success repeated in 2006 belgian federal science policy office , euro space society secondary school students of whole belgium. in july 2006, 6 teams of belgian secondary schools participated in ninth esa student campaign airbus a300 landing again in brussels.

participation in other campaigns

pletser invited participate in several other campaigns. in 1992, participated in dlr campaign aboard nasa’s kc-135/930 in houston train german astronauts on afpm operations prior spacelab d2 - sts-55 mission. in 1993, participated in parabolic flights aboard fouga magister of belgian air force measure microgravity levels during flights. in 1995, invited nasa participate in campaign aboard dc-9/30 of lewis research center prepare bdpu experiment spacelab lms - sts-78 mission. in 1999, invited participate in 2 campaigns of cnes , dlr airbus a300 zero-g subject of medical experiment. in 2004, invited fly aboard austrian short skyvan aircraft. in 2011, canadian space agency invited him participate in series of parabolic flights aboard falcon 20 in ottawa support combustion experiment. in 2016, participates visiting professor in space studies programme (ssp-16) of international space university (isu) taking place @ technion in haifa, israël. takes part in series of parabolic flights on board grob g103a twin ii glider organized isu’s space sciences department, performing several experiments proposed isu students, conducting therefore first scientific parabolic flights in middle-east.

number of experiments , parabolas

during 90 campaigns in took part, supervised total of 1000 microgravity experiments. principal investigator of 11 experiments of micro-accelerometric measurement of microgravity levels , of 2 fluid physics experiments. participated operator in 79 physical science experiments , subject in 95 medical , physiological experiments in preparation of several missions on spacelab, spacehab, russian space station mir , international space station.

he accumulated 7307 parabolas, totaling 39h 18m in weightlessness, equivalent 26.2 earth orbits, more first american, first russian, or first chinese astronauts. accumulated total of 52m in martian gravity , 49m 30s in lunar gravity during partial-g parabolic flights.

world record number of aircraft in parabolic flight

pletser person in world having flown parabolas on ten different aircraft: nasa’s kc-135/930, kc-135/931, , dc-9/30; cnes-esa’s airbus a300 zero-g; cnes’s caravelle; russian gagarin cosmonaut training center ilyushin il-76mdk; canadian space agency’s falcon 20; dutch nlr cessna citation ii; fouga magister of belgian air force , austrian short skyvan. holds official guinness world record aircraft flown in parabolic flight (nine), awarded in 2010 before participation in flights aboard falcon 20 in 2011, airbus a310 since 2015 , grob g103a twin ii glider in 2016.

vladimir pletser in martian extra-vehicular suit @ fmars.