This is a small handheld gecko grippers and associated test hardware. Credit: NASA
Orbital ATK CRS-6 will deliver investigations to the space station to study fire, meteors, regolith, adhesion, and 3-D printing in microgravity. NASA’s commercial partner plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit on March 22, 2016 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for its fifth contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Spacecraft Fire Experiment-I (Saffire-I) intentionally lights a large-scale fire inside an empty Cygnus resupply vehicle after it leaves the space station and before it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere.
In the decades of research into combustion and fire processes in reduced gravity, few experiments have directly studied spacecraft fire safety under lo...
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