Brochure: Blue Dot (2014)
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Alexander Gerst shapes our future on the International Space Station.
Mission experiments
Melting alloys without a container
In microgravity conditions, the electromagnetic levitator can be used to melt alloys without a container. An electromagnetic coil keeps the sample in its floating position.
German experiments during the Blue 'Dot mission' | |
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Materials science research | |
Experiments in the Electromagnetic Levitator (EML) in the Columbus Module: | |
Check-out Experiment | Airbus Defence and Space, Friedrichshafen |
Thermolab | Universität Ulm |
ThermoProp | Universität Ulm |
Magnephas | Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden |
Metcomp | DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space (today DLR Institute of Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space), Cologne |
Coolcop | DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space (today DLR Institute of Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space), Cologne |
Experiments in the Solidification and Quenching Furnace (SQF) and Low Gradient Furnace (LGF) melting furnaces in the Materials Science Laboratory (MSL), Destiny Module: | |
MICAST | DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space (today DLR Institute of Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space), Cologne |
CETSOL | Access, Aachen |
SETA | Access, Aachen |
Physics research | |
PASTA I (in the FASES facility in the Fluid Science Laboratory (FSL), Columbus Module) | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm |
PASTA II (in the FASTER apparatus in the European Drawer Rack (EDR), Columbus Module) | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm |
DCMIX-3 (in the Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument (SODI) – in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG), Columbus Module) | Universität Bayreuth |
PK-4 | Installation by Alexander Gerst |
Human physiology research | |
Cartilage | German Sport University Cologne |
Circadian rhythm | Charité Berlin |
Skin-B | Derma Tronnier, Witten-Herdecke University |
Astrobiological research | |
DOSIS-3D | DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne |
Triplelux-B | Technische Universität Berlin |
BOSS | DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne |
BIOMEX | DLR Institute of Planetary Research (today DLR Institute of Space Research), Berlin-Adlershof |
Technology | |
MagVector/MFX | German Space Agency at DLR, Airbus Defence and Space, Adelwitz Technologiezentrum (ATZ) |
WiSe-Net | Airbus Defence and Space, Bremen |
SPACETEX | Hohenstein Institute, Schoeller Textil AG, Charité Berlin, DLR |
Vessel ID System | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt; FFI), Norway |
Nightpod | Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH |
Astrophysics | |
SOLAR/SolACES | Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM), Freiburg |
Education | |
Earth Guardian | German Space Agency at DLR |
Columbus Eye | German Space Agency at DLR, University of Bonn |
Top Experiment Bubbles | DLR, ESA, Stiftung Jugend forscht |
Flying Classroom | DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space (today DLR Institute of Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space), Cologne |
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) | German Space Agency at DLR, NASA, Deutscher Amateur Radio-Club (DARC) |