Comptes Rendus
no. S2
30 years of CNES parabolic flights for the benefit of the scientific community
Sébastien Rouquette1
1 Human spaceflight experiment development department, CNES, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 351 (2023) no. S2, pp. 3-17.

Parabolic flights allow short microgravity investigations in Physical and Life Sciences, technology and instrumentation tests. The use of parabolic flights is complementary to other microgravity carriers, and preparatory to manned space missions onboard the International Space Station and other manned spacecraft, around the Earth or beyond, to the Moon for example.

The main advantages of parabolic flights for microgravity investigations are the short turn-around time, the relatively low cost, the flexibility of experimental approach, the possibility of direct intervention by investigators on board the aircraft during and between parabolas, and the possibility of modifying the experiment set-up between flights.

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DOI : 10.5802/crmeca.144
Mots clés : Parabolic flights, CNES, Novespace, Microgravity, Weightlessness
Sébastien Rouquette 1

1 Human spaceflight experiment development department, CNES, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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