HRVIP Researchers Floating in Zero-G

Zero-G Flight Campaign December 2021

Two projects from the HRVIP lab flew in reduced-gravity parabolic flights in December 2021 aboard Zero-G’s G-Force One aircraft. The CHANGES and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Reaction Wheels projects were two of 31 teams selected by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program to demonstrate novel technologies in reduced-gravity environment. Graduate student Casey Miller is the lead for the CHANGES project, while graduate students Kylie Cooper and Abhay Negi lead the HDD project. This is the HRVIP lab's first reduced-gravity test campaign and a very successful one. Read more about the flight campaign, technology, and teams in UC Davis Magazine's feature article: https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/students-fly-run-experiments-zero-gravity.

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