{"id":93071,"date":"2018-12-13T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=93071"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:55:17","slug":"ucf-research-flies-aboard-1st-virgin-galactic-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-research-flies-aboard-1st-virgin-galactic-space-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Research Flies Aboard 1st Virgin Galactic Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic launched its first rocket into space today carrying a crew of two along with NASA-supported research projects, including one from the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always exciting when you have something about to go up on a rocket,\u201d says Joshua Colwell, a UCF physics professor whose research was aboard the flight.\u00a0NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/flightopportunities\/index.html\">Flight Opportunities program<\/a> purchased flight services, the accommodation and ride, from Virgin Galactic for Colwell\u2019s payload and three other technologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The findings could help scientists better understand what will happen if astronauts or robotic landers were to work on the surface of a small asteroid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is the kind of experiment you can\u2019t really do on the ground,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, it\u2019s always exciting and a privilege to collect data like this from a high-quality free fall environment like you get from one of these suborbital vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colwell says he is eagerly awaiting retrieving the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, known as Collisions Into Dust Experiment, or COLLIDE, tested how dust particles ranging in size from about a tenth of a millimeter to about 2 centimeters behave in microgravity, which was achieved when the craft left Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re shooting an impactor into a simulated asteroid surface very slowly in a microgravity environment and observing what happens,\u201d Colwell says.<\/p>\n<p>He says the motions of the impactor and any dust particles knocked off the surface would be tracked with high frame-rate video.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could help scientists better understand what will happen if astronauts or robotic landers were to work on the surface of a small asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has applications for NASA\u2019s plans for exploration of asteroids, with robotic explorers as well as astronauts in the future, because those objects have very weak gravity,\u201d Colwell says. \u201cAnd if you are trying to sample them, place a lander on them or place an anchor on the surface, any slight disturbance to that surface could cause debris to go flying up because it\u2019s not held down strongly by gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flying debris could contaminate equipment and create safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment rode aboard the VSS <em>Unity<\/em>, a Virgin Galactic spaceplane that was launched from its mothership WhiteKnightTwo before flying to its top altitude and then gliding back down to a runway on Earth. The altitude it reached Thursday was more than 270,000 feet. It launched from Mojave Air and Space Port, in Mojave, California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing honor to be out here representing the Center for Microgravity Research and UCF.\u201d\u2013\u00a0 Stephanie Jarmak, UCF doctoral student<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The experiment supports the graduate research of Stephanie Jarmak, a doctoral student in UCF\u2019s physics department. Jarmak watched the launch from the spaceport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing honor to be out here representing the <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/microgravity\/\">Center for Microgravity Research<\/a> and UCF,\u201d Jarmak says. \u201cWe\u2019re feeling pretty nervous, but excited waiting to get access to our payload off the spaceship. This data contributes directly to my Ph.D. thesis, so I have my fingers crossed. I\u2019ve never been this close to a launch before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-principal investigator on the research is Adrienne Dove, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s physics department and a member of UCF\u2019s Planetary Sciences Group. Although she wasn\u2019t able to attend the launch, she followed it on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a huge success \u2013 two more Americans get their wings for getting to space, and there were NASA-supported payloads aboard,\u201d Dove says. \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting a really long time for this, so it\u2019s a huge sense of relief that it flew. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colwell has now had six experiments flown into space, including on space shuttle flights and payloads to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by NASA, UCF and Space Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Colwell is a member of the UCF Planetary Sciences Group and is the assistant director of the Florida Space Institute. 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