Research and Development Oil-sealed vacuum pumps and systems for research tasks under space conditions
Vacuum Systems for Low Gravitation Experiments
- Simulation of weightlessness in a free drop tower with a drop capsule at pressures < 10-2 mbar
- Microgravity experiments with a residual acceleration of 10-8 g
ZARM free drop tower, Bremen, Germany
- Drop tower height: 145 m
- Inside diameter: 3.5 m
- Vacuum chamber: 1700 m3 volume
- Height of drop: 110 m
- Drop time: 4.74 s
- Drop capsule up to 2 m in height
- Capsule mass: approx. 300 kg