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A Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA (2018)

Chapter: Appendix F: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Listing of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Listing of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. A Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24966.

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Commercial Spaceflight Federation Listing of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions

TABLE F.1 Commercial Spaceflight Federation Listing of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions

Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0001-PS	Active	2011	2/2/-	DIR.	Suborbital Flight Environment Monitor (SFEM)	NASA Ames Research Center
T0003-PS	Active	2011	2/-/-	AFO1	On-Orbit Propellant Storage Stability	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
T0004-PS	Active	2011	4/-/-	AFO1	Printing the Space Future	Made in Space, Inc.	Made in Space
T0008-P	Active	2011	4	AFO1	Indexing Media Filtration System	Aerfil, LLC
T0015-S	Active	2011		AFO1	Electromagnetic Field Measurements on sRLV	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
T0020-PS	Active	2011	3/-/-	AFO2	Microgravity Multi-Phase Flow Experiment for Suborbital Testing (MFEST)	NASA Johnson Space Center	Zero Gravity Corporation
T0021-S	Active	2011	2	AFO2	Application of controlled vibrations to multiphase systems	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/University of Alabama, Huntsville
T0022-S	Active	2011		AFO2	Environment monitoring suite on sRLV	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0023-S	Pending	2011		AFO2	Measurement of the Atmospheric Background in the Mesosphere	Silicon Valley Space Center
T0024-S	Active	2011		AFO2	RF Gauging of the Liquid Oxygen Tank on sRLV	NASA Glenn Research Center
T0027-P*	Completed	2011	2	AFO2	Autonomous Cell Culture Apparatus for Growing 3-Dimensional Tissues in Microgravity	NASA Johnson Space Center	Zero Gravity Corporation
T0034-S	Active	2012		AFO3	Terrain Relative Navigation Descent Imager (TRNDI)	Draper Laboratory
T0035-PS	Active	2012	1/-/-	AFO3	Near-Zero Gravity Cryogenic Line Chilldown Experiment in a Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle	University of Florida
T0036-S	Active	2012		AFO3	Collisions Into Dust Experiment on a Commercial Suborbital Vehicle	University of Central Florida	Blue Origin
T0039-P	Pending	2012		AFO3	Fuel Mass Gauging Based on Electrical Capacitance Volumetric Tomography Techniques	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
T0043-P	Pending	2012	1	AFO3	Parabolic Flight: Validation of Electro- Hydrodynamic Gas-Liquid Phase Separation in Microgravity	New Jersey Institute of Technology
T0044-P	Active	2012	1	AFO3	Sintering of Composite Materials under Reduced Gravity Conditions	University of Central Florida
T0045-P	Active	2012	1	AFO3	Evaporative Heat Transfer Mechanisms within a Heat Melt Compactor (EHeM HMC)	Advanced Technical Institute I.T.I.S “E. Fermi,” Italy
T0046-S	Pending	2012		AFO3	Polar Mesospheric Cloud Imaging and Tomography Experiment	Space Science Institute
T0049-P	Active	2012	3	AFO3	Parabolic Flight Evaluation of a Hermetic Surgery System for Reduced Gravity Experiment	NASA Glenn Research Center
T0050-B	Active	2012		AFO3	Flight Demonstration of an Integrated Camera and Solid-State Fine Steering System	Southwest Research Institute
T0052-S	Active	2012		AFO3	Collection of Regolith Experiment (CORE) on a Commercial Suborbital Vehicle	University of Louisville

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0053-PS	Active	2012	1/-/-	AFO4	Validating Telemetric Imaging Hardware for Crew Assisted and Crew-Autonomous Biological Imaging in Suborbital Applications	University of Central Florida
T0054-B	Active	2012	1	AFO4	Stratospheric Parabolic Flight Technology	Purdue University
T0056-P	Pending	2013		AFO5	UAH ChargerSat-2 Parabolic Flight Testing	University of Alabama, Huntsville
T0057-P*	Active	2013	2	AFO5	Hybrid Ultimate Lifting Kit (HULK) Device Demonstration during Parabolic Flight	University of Florida
T0058-P	Pending	2013		AFO5	Assessing Otolith-Organ Function with Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials	NASA Glenn Research Center
T0059-P	Active	2013	1	AFO5	On the performance of a nanocatalyst-based direct ammonia alkaline fuel cell (VEMPs) in Parabolic Flight	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
T0061-SB	Active	2013	-/1/1	AFO5	Flight Testing of a UAT ADS-B Transmitter Prototype for Commercial Space Transportation Using sRLV	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
T0062-P	Pending	2013		AFO5	In-Flight Lab Analysis Technology Demonstration in Reduced Gravity (DAAFC) under microgravity conditions	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras
T0064-B	Active	2013		AFO5	Deployable Rigid Adjustable Guided Final Landing Approach Pinions (DRAG FLAPs)	Masten Space Systems Inc.	Masten Space Systems
T0066-B*	Completed	2013	3	AFO5	Guided Parafoil High Altitude Research	Airborne Systems North America of CA, Inc.
T0073-S*	Completed	2012	1	DIR.	Radial Core Heat Spreader	NASA Glenn Research Center
T0075-S	Active	2012	1	DIR.	Exo-Atmosperic Aerobrake	NASA Ames Research Center
T0076-S	Pending	2012		NRA1	Demonstration of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nano-tubes for Earth Climate Remote Sensing	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
T0077-S*	Active	2012	2	NRA1	Facility for Microgravity Research and Submicroradian Stabilization using sRLVs	Controlled Dynamics Inc
T0078-S	Pending	2012		NRA1	Enhanced Thermal Switch	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0079-S	Active	2012		NRA1	Autonomous Flight Manager for Human-in-the-Loop Immersive Simulation and	NASA Glenn Research Center
T0080-S	Completed	2012	1	NRA1	Advanced Micro Sun Sensor	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0081-PS	Active	2012	1/-/-	NRA1	Demonstration of Variable Radiator	Texas A&M University
T0082-S	Pending	2012		NRA1	Dynamic Microscopy System Flight Test of Terrestrial Rockets	Draper Laboratory
T0083-PS	Active	2012	1/-/-	NRA1	Design and Development of a Micro Satellite Attitude Control System	State University of New York, Buffalo
T0084-S	Active	2012	1	NRA1	Suborbital Test of a Robotics-Based Method for In Orbit Identification of Spacecraft Inertia Properties	Inertia Properties New Mexico State University
T0085-S	Active	2012		NRA1	SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform	Southwest Research Institute
T0086-S	Active	2012		NRA1	Saturated Fluid Pistonless Pump Technology Demonstrator	University of Colorado
T0087-S	Pending	2012		NRA1	Electric-hydrodynamic Control of Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Microgravity	New Jersey Institute of Technology
T0088-S*	Active	2012	1	NRA1	An FPGA-based, Radiation Tolerant, Reconfigurable Computer System with Real Time Fault Detection, Avoidance, and Repair	Montana State University
T0092-S*	Completed	2013	1	AFO6	Precision Formation Flying Sensor	University of Colorado
T0095-SB	Active	2013	-/1/1	AFO6	Test of Satellite Communications Systems onboard Suborbital Platforms to Provide Low-Cost Data Communications	Solstar Communications
T0097-B*	Pending	2013	2	AFO6	Planetary Atmosphere Minor Species Sensor	University of Central Florida
T0098-S	Active	2013		AFO6	Navigation Doppler Lidar Sensor Demonstration for Precision Landing on Solar System Bodies	NASA Langley Research Center
T0100-P	Completed	2013	2	AFO6	Creation of Titanium-Based Nanofoams in Reduced Gravity for Dye-Sensitized Solar	Techshot, Inc.

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0102-P	Pending	2013	1	AFO6	Demonstration of Adjustable Fluidic Lens in Microgravity	University of Arizona
T0104-PS	Pending	2013		AFO6	Real Time Conformational Analysis of Rhodopsin using Plasmon Waveguide Resonance Spectroscopy Cell Production	Northwestern University
T0106-B	Active	2013		AFO6	Low-Cost Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (sRLV)	Surrogate GSSL Inc.
T0109-P	Active	2013		AFO6	Advanced Optical Mass Gauge	Mass Dynamix, Inc.
T0110-P	Active	2013	1	DIR.	Wet Lab	NASA Ames Research Center
T0111-S	Pending	2013		NRA2	Rocket Flight of a Delta-Doped CCD Focal Plane Array for CHESS	Arizona State University
T0112-S	Active	2013		NRA2	Spacecraft Disturbance Isolation and Rejection Platform (SDIRP)	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0113-B	Pending	2013		NRA2	Focal Plane Actuation to Achieve Ultra-High Resolution on Suborbital Balloon Payloads	Arizona State University
T0114-S	Pending	2013		NRA2	Technology Demonstration of Graphene Ion Membranes for Earth and Space Applications	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
T0115-S	Active	2013		NRA2	EDL Technology Development for the Maraia Earth Return Capsule	NASA Johnson Space Center
T0116-S	Active	2013		NRA2	Operational Demonstration of the MPS-120 CubeSat High-impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System	Aerojet General Corporation
T0117-S	Pending	2013		NRA2	1U CubeSat Green Propulsion System with Post- Launch Pressurization	Busek Co. Inc.
T0118-S	Pending	2013		NRA2	Iodine RF Ion Thruster Development	Busek Co. Inc.
T0119-S	Active	2013		NRA2	Inductively Coupled Electromagnetic (ICE) Thruster System Development for Small Spacecraft Propulsion	MSNW LLC
T0120-S	Pending	2013		NRA2	Advanced Hybrid Rocket Motor Propulsion Unit for CubeSats (PUC)r	The Aerospace Corporation
T0121-S*	Completed	2013	1	USIP	Flyover Mapping and Modeling of Terrain Features	Carnegie Mellon University	Masten Space Systems

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0123-P	Completed	2013	2	USIP	Microgravity Propellant Gauging Using Modal Analysis	Carthage College
T0124-B*	Completed	2013	1	USIP	Gannon University’s Cosmic-Ray Calorimeter (GU-CRC)	Gannon University
T0126-P*	Pending	2014	1	AFO8	Validating Microgravity Mobility Models for Hopping/Tumbling Robots	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0128-S	Active	2014		AFO8	Zero-gravity Green Propellant Management Technology	Purdue University
T0129-P	Active	2014	1	AFO8	Testing of a Microgravity Rock Coring Drill Using Microspines	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0131-P	Active	2014	1	AFO8	Enhanced Dynamic Load Sensors for ISS (EDLS-ISS) Operational Feasibility for ARED	Aurora Flight Sciences
T0132-P*	Completed	2014	2	AFO8	Effects of Microgravity on Intracranial Pressure	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
T0133-P	Active	2014	1	AFO8	Payload Separation Performance of a New 6U CubeSat Canisterized Satellite Dispenser	Air Force Research Laboratory
T0135-P*	Completed	2014	2	AFO8	Testing ON-OFF Gecko Adhesive Grippers in Microgravity	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0137-S	Active	2014	2	AFO8	Fuel Optimal and Accurate Landing System Test Flights	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
T0138-P	Completed	2014	2	AFO8	Reduced Gravity Flight Demonstration of SPHERES INSPECT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
T0139-S	Active	2014		DIR.	ADEPT	NASA Ames Research Center
T0140-P	Active	2014	1	DIR.	Lunar Plants	NASA Ames Research Center
T0141-B*	Completed	2014	1	NRA2	Demonstration of Enabling Communications Technologies for Future Low-Cost Small Earth Return Vehicles	Terminal Velocity Aerospace
T0142-S	Active	2014		DIR.	Affordable Vehicle Avionics (AVA)	NASA Ames Research Center
T0143-B	Active	2015		DIR.	ORS Bi-Static RF Imager	Air Force Research Laboratory
T0144-S	Active	2015		DIR.	PULSAR	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

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Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Commercial Spaceflight Federation List of Microgravity Experiments Since 2011 that Have Flown on Balloons, Parabolic, or Suborbital Missions
Title #	Status	Year Launched	Type of Flight (P/S/B)	Origin	Payload	Affiliation	Commercial Company
T0145-P	Active	2015		REDDI1 4	Low-Gravity Flow Boiling on Modern Textured Surfaces	Purdue University
T0146-P	Active	2015		REDDI1 4	Droplet Pinning in Microgravity	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
T0147-P	Active	2015		REDDI1 4	Modal Propellant Gauging in Microgravity	Carthage College
T0148-S	Pending	2015		REDDI1 4	Demonstration of One-Fault Tolerant Precision Navigation for Autolanding Airless	Bodies: Flight Two Astrobotic Technology, Inc.
T0149-P	Active	2015		REDDI1 4	Microgravity Fabrication of Freeze-cast Titanium Foams	Northwestern University
T0150-P	Active	2015		REDDI1 4	Advancing Diaphragm Modeling Technology for Propellant Management	Purdue University
T0151-B	Active	2015		DIR.	PRANDTL-M	NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
T0152-P	Active	2015		DIR.	ISS Life Science Glovebox (LSG) Crew Restraint	NASA Ames Resarch Center
T0153-B	Active	2015		DIR.	Mars Electric Reusable Flyer	NASA Langley Research Center