Deadline extension! Apply before May 9th 23:59 CEST LIDE is the first commercial provider of altered gravity test platforms using parabolic flights on sailplane gliders. For the second time, LIDE is launching the Glide Your Experiment Challenge. This is a unique opportunity to fly your experiment in altered gravity conditions for free. The competition is…
The 4th of April is going to be a busy day in the sky above Saint-Hubert airport, Belgium. Indeed, LIDE Space will have the privilege to fly no less than 3 exciting scientific experiments! The first experiment, called Tumors in Space, will be jointly organized by Dr. Tricia Larose (University of Oslo) and Dr. Vladimir…
J-1 before the NeuronGrav flights! Starting tomorrow, our glider based at Saint-Hubert airport (Belgium) will operate parabolic flights as part of the NeuronGrav (Neuronal responses in altered Gravity) experiment. With this project, our main goal is to characterize how neuronal cells are affected by microgravity, and how they adapt following parabolic flights. Previous studies have…
Science and research continuously benefit from experiments conducted in reduced gravity environments. Indeed, experiments in microgravity are a fundamental part of many branches of applied sciences: material science, fundamental physics, fluid dynamics, physiology and space medicine, plant and cellular biology, combustion physics, all require to conduct experiments in altered gravity. Our recent paper in Microgravity…
Are you a scientist involved in gravity-related research? Interested in novel commercial markets and new space economy? Or simply curious about what space research will bring to our daily lives? Then SELGRA’s webinar series, freely available on their Youtube channel, will be of interest to you. SELGRA is the student chapter of the European Low-Gravity…
We are thrilled to announce that, together with the NeuronGrav team, we will attend the upcoming 2022 IAC next September in Paris. The NeuronGrav team was the winner of our first Glide Your Experiment! challenge: its goal was, in the same spirit as ESA’s Fly your thesis!, to organize a call for experiments and to…
For the first time LIDE is launching the “Glide Your Experiment Challenge” : a unique opportunity to fly your experiment in altered gravity conditions for free on one of our gliders parabolic flights. Apply before October 30th 2020.
Access to microgravity on Earth is a key component of scientific experiments and for testing and demonstrating future aerospace technologies, both for space research and industry. Here is a brief summary of the main methods being used right now to reproduce microgravity conditions around the world: Drop Towers are used around the world (USA, Europe…
During the Cold War space race, scientists became quite interested in the effects of microgravity. Before that time, we principally sent assembled equipment to space in the form of satellites starting in 1957 with Sputnik. Prior to the dawn of the Space Age, we did not extensively consider the effects of the zero- or low-gravity…
As defined by the National Research Council, a gravity-related phenomenon is either directly affected by reduced gravity or becomes significant as the gravity level is reduced. In general, the focus of microgravity research and applications is the study and assessment of these biological, physical, and chemical phenomenology and related issues.1 Conducting experiments in a microgravity…