Discipline: Technology and Engineering
Subcategory: Physics (not Nanoscience)
Session: 4
Ayobami Ogunmolasuyi - University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Co-Author(s): Nathan Bane, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD; Jesudara Omidokun, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD; Justin Derrickson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD
The CSA/NASA sends astronauts to the International Space Station to perform experiments, and they experience microgravity on the space station for months. The CSA/NASA need to study the effects of microgravity to keep these astronauts safe and healthy and to keep the experiments they perform going smoothly. In order to understand how physical phenomena such as the physical properties of motion of an object would be when the object is outside the cloud of the earth’s gravity, experiments have to be conducted. The goal of our project is to design an experiment to be conducted during a parabolic or suborbital flight to study the change in physical phenomena of different objects. The project design should be able to exhibit the behaviour of physical phenomena in the zero-gravity environment that would be experienced during the parabolic flight.
Funder Acknowledgement(s): Canadian Space Agency; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Faculty Advisor: Dr Kausiksankar Das, kdas@umes.edu
Role: 3D design and Printing; Documentations