CCACS News
July 10, 2003
CCACS Water-Mist Fire Suppression Experiment on STS-107. The CCACS Water-Mist Fire Suppression Experiment (Mist) launched on January 16th on the STS-107 Mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The experiment was conducted in the Combustion Module CM-2, which was developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center. The Mist Experiment Mounting Structure (EMS), which is inserted into the CM-2, was designed and built at CCACS in the Colorado School of Mines. The Mist research team is under the direction of Tom McKinnon and Angel Abbud-Madrid from CCACS, and includes industrial partners Microcool (Division of Nortec Industries, Inc.) and Fogco Systems, Inc. Water-mist fire suppression systems have potential applications in buildings, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. This was the first shuttle experiment for CCACS and for the Colorado School of Mines. Before the tragic loss of the Shuttle Columbia on February 1st, the Mist team had successfully downlinked most of the results of the experiment conducted by the crew of Columbia.
Space-DRUMS™ Ready for Launch to ISS in January. The Space-DRUMS™ acoustic containerless processing facility is ready for launch to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis (flight ULF-1) in January of 2004. Space-DRUMS™ was successfully installed in the Multipurpose Logistics Module (MPLM) and is currently at the Kennedy Space Center awaiting integration into the Shuttle cargo bay.
Annual Meeting Set: The CCACS Annual Meeting will be held September 24-26, 2003 on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The meeting brings together researchers and administrators from industry, government and academia to discuss recent advances in combustion-related areas, in particular as they relate to commercialization. Faculty, students and industrial representatives give reports on CCACS projects. This year's Annual Meeting will include an industry trade fair for industry partners and prospective partners. This year, the NASA Space Product Development program has adopted a new set of guidelines and a strategic plan in which some of the existing barriers are being removed and a new emphasis is being placed on how the RPCs (like CCACS) can address NASA objectives more directly. We expect that this will create opportunities in new research areas, perhaps including areas that lie outside of combustion research, but which use the combined talents of Colorado School of Mines researchers and industry product developers. Registration is required by the end of August. You can register online using the registration form. For more information, please contact Mindy Gewuerz. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
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