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\nEngineers, pilots, researchers and scientists convened in Bordeaux, France, for ESA\u2019s 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over the course of three days they flew on a specially-fitted commercial aircraft, testing equipment and running research as the pilots put the plane through repeated parabolas, giving the passengers and their experiments brief bouts of microgravity.\n<\/p>\n
\nESA\u2019s project coordinator Neil Melville introduces the experiments that flew on this campaign, from plasma to granular physics and heat pipes.\n<\/p>\n
\nParabolic flights are one of many platforms ESA offers for European researchers to run experiments for spaceflight. These flights are one of the few that allow the researchers to interact with their own experiments \u201chands-on\u201d in a weightless environment. Send a proposal through our continuously open research announcements and you could be flying on the next campaign.\n<\/p>\n
\nMore on ESA\u2019s parabolic flights and research in zero gravity<\/a>\n<\/p>\n