Abstract
Centrifuges running in weightlessness simulate gravity for biological experiments in the space environment, either for a reference experiment or as a gravity stimulus.
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Abbreviations
- BOTEX:
-
Botanical Experiment (facility)
- CAM:
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Centrifuge Accommodation Module
- CBEF:
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Cell Biology Experiment Facility
- CCU:
-
Cell culture unit
- CIS:
-
Cells in Space module
- CNES:
-
French Space Agency
- DLR:
-
German Space Agency
- EC:
-
Experiment container
- EM:
-
Engineering model
- EMCS:
-
European Modular Cultivation System
- ERM:
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Experiment reference model
- ESA:
-
European Space Agency
- Eu:CROPIS:
-
Euglena and Combined Regenerative Organic-Food Production in Space
- GM:
-
Ground model
- GPPF:
-
Gravitational Plant Physiology Facility
- IBIS:
-
Instrument de Biologie Spatiale
- IH:
-
Insect habitat
- IML:
-
International Microgravity Laboratory
- IR:
-
Infrared
- ISS:
-
International Space Station
- JAXA:
-
Japanese Space Agency
- NASA:
-
National Administration for Space and Aeronautics
- NIZEMI:
-
Slow rotating centrifuge microscope
- PRU:
-
Plant Research Unit
- RPM:
-
Random positioning machine
- SIMBOX:
-
Science in Microgravity Box
- STATEX:
-
Statolith Experiment (facility)
- VIS:
-
Visible (light)
- ZARM:
-
Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation
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Kübler, U., Brinckmann, E., Grinberg, A. (2020). Space Research Centrifuges. In: Young, L.R., Sutton, J.P. (eds) Handbook of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_47-2
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