{"id":3364,"date":"2013-07-12T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:26:56","slug":"students-study-fire-in-microgravity-on-parabolic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Students study fire in microgravity on parabolic flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Univ. of California at San Diego carried out experiments on combustion and flame in weightlessness while riding on a NASA plane flying parabolic trajectories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21515-fire-space-microgravity-research.html\" target=\"_d\">Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space | Fire in Zero-G &#8211; Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maeweb.ucsd.edu\/node\/123\" target=\"_d\">MAE UCSD Team accepted into NASA&#8217;s Microgravity University program &#8211; UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article describes the odd behavior of flames in microgravity:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2013\/18jun_strangeflames\/\" target=\"_d\">Strange Flames on the ISS &#8211; NASA Science<\/a>. This video, seen also in <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2878\" target=\"_blank\">this earlier post<\/a>, is about the &#8220;strange, cool-burning form of fire&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OXRF95iuLvg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Univ. of California at San Diego carried out experiments on combustion and flame in weightlessness while riding on a NASA plane flying parabolic trajectories: Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space | Fire in Zero-G &#8211; Space.com MAE UCSD Team accepted into NASA&#8217;s Microgravity University program &#8211; UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students study fire in microgravity on parabolic flight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-and-technology","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Sg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17932,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17932","url_meta":{"origin":3364,"position":0},"title":"Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo test flight &#8211; Feb.22.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"[ Updates: 12:14 pm EST: Max altitude is reportedly 294,000 feet, or 89.6 km, or 55.7 miles. 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