| Home Page | Special Projects PSL in space with the ESA |
| PSL have recently taken part in trials of their new Miniature ICCD camera in zero-G conditions aboard an ESA Airbus. Thirty zero-G sessions were accomplished during the flight, each lasting approximately 30 seconds. This picture shows the interior of the Airbus with PSL Director Patricia Tomkins in free fall. |
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Each experiment aboard the flight is packaged as it would be on a satellite launch, and runs automatically. |
| The PSL experiment, designed with the collaboration of the Phillips University
(Marburg), studies the behaviour of osteoblasts in zero-G conditions. Following the successful trials aboard the Airbus, the experiment may now be included in a satellite or shuttle payload for more extensive running. |
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