ESA’s Drop Tower Utilisation Activities 2000 to 2011
ESA’s Drop Tower Utilisation Activities 2000 to 2011
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2000 年至 2011 年 ESA 落塔利用活动
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2011
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Gerhard Wurm
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E. Kufner;Jürgen Blum;N. Callens;C. Eigenbrod;O. Koudelka;A. Orr;Carla C. Rosa;A. Vedernikov;Stefan Will;J. Reimann;Gerhard Wurm
欧空局设在荷兰诺德韦克的欧洲空间研究和技术中心ESTEC与设在不莱梅的ZARM-FAB（应用空间技术和微重力中心-落塔运营和服务公司）就利用落塔进行地基微重力研究和空间硬件开发研究进行了长期合作。在2000年1月至2011年12月期间，欧空局将总共采购约840个空投，涉及各种科学和技术学科。实验通常以每次15至20滴的运动进行，每年平均约5次运动。欧空局和ZARM-FAB之间的合作协议包括ZARM专家的实验准备建议，将硬件集成到落舱中，专门的安全审查，执行落舱或弹射实验，飞行后有效载荷分解以及将获得的数据移交给实验人员。实验硬件本身由科学家提供，或者必须从欧空局的落塔利用合同之外的来源采购。欧空局感谢位于不莱梅的ZARM-FAB的合作，其投放和弹射设施提供出色的微重力质量，由一个高度胜任、灵活和非常支持的专家团队操作，允许全年在相对较短的时间内进行活动整合，提供实时实验操作，每次投放后立即提供实验结果，并提供现场硬件修改的可能性。
The European Space Research and Technology Center ESTEC, ESA’s premises in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, has a long lasting cooperation with the ZARM-FAB (Centre of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity—Drop Tower Operation and Service Company) in Bremen on the utilization of the Drop Tower for ground-based microgravity research and space hardware development studies. During the period January 2000 to December 2011 ESA will have procured in total some 840 drops addressing a variety of scientific and technological disciplines. The experiments are usually carried out in campaigns of 15 to 20 drops each, with an annual average of about 5 campaigns. The cooperation agreement between ESA and the ZARM-FAB includes experiment preparation advice by ZARM’s experts, the integration of the hardware into the drop capsule, dedicated safety reviews, the execution of the drop or catapult experiments, the post-flight payload de-integration as well as the handover of acquired data to the experimenters. The experiment hardware itself is provided by the scientists or has to be procured from sources outside of ESA’s drop tower utilization contract. ESA appreciates the cooperation of the ZARM-FAB in Bremen whose drop- and catapult facility provides excellent microgravity quality, is operated by a highly competent, flexible and extremely supportive expert team, allows campaign integration at relatively short notice throughout the entire year, offers real-time experiment operations and immediately after each drop delivers experiment results and provides on-site hardware modification possibilities.