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The Experiment CPLM (Comportamiento de Puentes Líquidos en Microgravedad) on Board Minisat 01

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The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid participates in the MINISAT 01 program as the experiment CPLM responsible. This experiment aims at the study of the fluid behaviour in reduced gravity conditions. The interest of this study is and has been widely recognised by the scientific community and has potential applications in the pharmaceutical and microelectronic technologies (crystal growth), among others. The scientific team which has developed the CPLM experiment has a wide experience in this field and had participate in the performance of a large number of experiments on the fluid behaviour in reduced gravity conditions in flight (Spacelab missions, TEXUS sounding rockets, KC-135 and Caravelle aeroplanes, drop towers, as well as on earth labs (neutral buoyancy and small scale simulations). The experimental equipment used in CPLM is a version of the payload developed for experimentation on drop towers and on board microsatellites as the UPM-Sat 1, adapted to fly on board MINISAT 01.

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Sanz-Andrés, A., Rodríguez-de-Francisco, P., Santiago-Prowald, J. (2001). The Experiment CPLM (Comportamiento de Puentes Líquidos en Microgravedad) on Board Minisat 01. In: Gimenez, A. (eds) Science with Minisat 01. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0686-6_11

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