Microgravity Production for the Test Capsule Falling Through the Drop Shaft | Zendy

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Microgravity Production for the Test Capsule Falling Through the Drop Shaft

Author(s) -

Hideyo Sakurai,

Shinobu SAITO,

Takao Azuma,

Mitsuru Muto

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

journal of robotics and mechatronics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 1883-8049

pISSN - 0915-3942

DOI - 10.20965/jrm.1994.p0322

Subject(s) - drop (telecommunication) , drop test , falling (accident) , engineering , drop impact , mechanical engineering , marine engineering , structural engineering , environmental science , aerospace engineering , automotive engineering , materials science , splash , medicine , environmental health

The world’s deepest drop shaft facility for microgravity experiment, using a former coal mine shaft of 710m in depth was constructed at Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido, Japan in 1991. The rocket-shaped capsule, in which experimental devices are loaded, falls through the drop shaft and produces microgravity of approximately 1 × 10 -5 G for 10 seconds. This paper provides an outline of this drop shaft facility.

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