A cubesat centrifuge for long duration milligravity research

Abstract We advocate a low-cost strategy for long-duration research into the ‘milligravity’ environment of asteroids, comets and small moons, where surface gravity is a vector field typically less than 1/1000 the gravity of Earth. Unlike the microgravity environment of space, there is a directionali...

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Main Authors: Erik Asphaug, Jekan Thangavelautham, Andrew Klesh, Aman Chandra, Ravi Nallapu, Laksh Raura, Mercedes Herreras-Martinez, Stephen Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:npj Microgravity
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-017-0021-0