Engineers complete experiment onboard ESA sounding rocket

Monday, December 14, 2015 - 08:21 in Astronomy & Space

An experiment investigating how metals change from liquid to solid in microgravity has successfully taken place onboard a European Space Agency (ESA) sounding rocket. University College Dublin researchers designed the furnace and made the metal samples used in the XRMON experiment.

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