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| | PRIMER was flown on NASA's KC-135 on July 24, 25, and 26, 2001 out of
NASA Glenn Research Center. Following are links to some of the video
recorded on those flights. PostScript plots of the acceleration in the airplane
normal to the target surface are also available for some parabolas.
 | July 24, 2001, Target Tray 1, parabola #8 (nominal 0g), F-75 Ottawa quartz sand (>
75 microns). Quicktime movie (350kB). |
| July 24, 2001, Target Tray 2, parabola #9 (nominal 0g), JSC-1 (<250
microns). Quicktime movie (284 kB). |
| July 24, 2001, Target Tray 3, parabola #11 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (150-250
microns), Quicktime movie (580 kB). |
| July 24, 2001, Target Tray 4, parabola #12 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (75-150
microns), Quicktime movie (508 kB). |
| July 24, 2001, Target Tray 3, parabola 15 (nominal 0g), JSC-1 (150-250
microns), Quicktime
movie (340 kB). |
| July 25, 2001, Target Tray 1, parabola #7 (nominal 0.01g), Ottawa quartz
sand (75-150 microns). Quicktime movie
(250 kB). Vertical accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
| July 25, 2001, Target Tray 2, parabola #8 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (<250
microns). Quicktime movie (270 kB). |
| July 25, 2001, Target Tray 3, parabola #9 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (<75
microns). Quicktime movie (460 kB).
Vertical accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
| July 25, 2001, Target Tray 4, parabola #10 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (<38
microns). Quicktime movie (510 kB). |
| July 26, 2001, Target Tray 1, parabola #9 (nominal 0.01g), Ottawa quartz
sand (>150 microns). Quicktime movie
(490 kB).Vertical accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
| July 26, 2001, Target Tray 2, parabola #10 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (<250
microns). Quicktime movie (620 kB). |
| July 26, 2001, Target Tray 3, parabola #11 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (<75
microns). Quicktime movie (430 kB).Vertical
accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
| July 26, 2001, Target Tray 4, parabola #12 (nominal 0.01g), JSC-1 (>250
microns). Quicktime movie (530 kB).Vertical
accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
| July 26, 2001, Target Tray 3, parabola #13 (nominal 0 g), JSC-1 (<75
microns). Quicktime movie (380 kB).Vertical
accelerometer data for this parabola (PostScript
plot). |
Final design of PRIMER differs from that pictured below: all target trays
have same orientation.
May 24, 2001 Design of PRIMER:
| The transparent box is the Acrylic Vacuum Box, which is composed of 5
sides plus a cut out bottom that is attached to the Al plate. There are four
compartments, which are operated independently of each other. |
| The Aluminum Bottom Plate is where the target trays and rotary motion
feedthroughs are attached. |
| This Aluminum plate is always perpendicular to the floor of the plane. |
| O-ring groove for vacuum seal between acrylic box and Aluminum bottom
plate is shown in red. |
| Target tray is shown in blue. |
| Door of the target tray is shown in green. |
| Door hinge system: |
| Rotary motion feedthrough on bottom plate (orange). |
| The door is manually operated from the back side (atmosphere side). |
| The aluminum bottom plate is square (33x33cm2). This allows the
whole experiment to be rotated with respect to the floor of the plane. A
frame (not shown) will be bolted to the floor of the plane and to the box
shown above. In order to change the orientation we only need to rotate the
box, not the frame. |
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