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Mars Rover — Good Night Oppy

December 31, 2022 by YCC

I signed up for Send Your Name to MARS as part of the history in 2011

Nite nite Oppy is a sweet documentary (in my view it is REALLY lovely!).
I honestly couldn’t imagine how these scientists planned and conducted such a long~~~ ops duration for 8 Mars years (15 Earth years).
While my ISS E-FIELD Flames operation was merely Oppy’s 0.4%, it was only 21-testday (or around 131 hours).
It is definitely that nothing compares.

And Perseverance has already been in action for 663 sols!
In my mind, it was not so long ago that it was launched and then landed on Mars several months later.
I still recall that one of my MS student who was an intern at NASA Ames at that time, described the enthusiasm and how the whole helicopter team cheer for the success of launching and landing.
It was 2020, 2021 already! [Read more…]

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Space experiment operation: Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames (E-FIELD Flames)

November 20, 2020 by YCC

YCC shares her remote space experiment operation experience of E-FIELD Flames with her appreciation for all the operation (OPS) crews at #NASA.

Full 1-minute talk at the link to the video in the image below or https://www.facebook.com/LFAMAEUCI/videos/200040868242157.

Physical Science Informatics (PSI) Plenary session in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on 11/05/2020.

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UCI LFA E-FIELD Flames study 2 (Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames)

November 18, 2020 by YCC

“These experiments have been in preparation since 1996 and finally completed in 2018.” DDR said.

Dr. Chien, “On the 1st test day, we had no clue about what was happening in microgravity with this behavior”

Physical Science Informatics Plenary session in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on 11/05/2020.

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UCI LFA E-FIELD Flames studies 1 ( Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames)

November 18, 2020 by YCC

Physical Science Informatics (PSI) Plenary session in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on 11/05/2020.

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“In 2018 we finally got to do this space station experiment.” Prof. Dunn-Rankin said.

Full 1-minute talk at the link to the video in the image below (open new window) or https://fb.watch/bhhBnHAe9s/.

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ACME space flames

November 16, 2020 by YCC

30s – “If you are following ACME, you will figure out that not so long ago, the full ACME experiments had ignited 1000 flames on the International Space station (ISS).” said by Dr. Chien.

Full 1-minute talk at the link from the video link below or https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=200040868242157&ref=external

Physical Science Informatics (PSI) Plenary session in the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Virtual Meeting 2020 on 11/05/2020.

@LFAMAEUCI on facebook by Lasers, Flames & Aerosols

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ACME, ASGSR, E-FIELD Flames, ISS, Microgravity, NASA, PSI, UCI

1000 Points of Light on the ISS

August 8, 2020 by YCC

Lit > 1000 flames in space now!
Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames (E-FIELD Flames) experiment at UC Irvine (operated by Dr. Chien and Prof. Dunn-Rankin with NASA Glenn) contributed around 1/5th of it on the International Space Station (ISS) as one of the experiments of ACME.

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E-FIELD Flames microgravity image is now on the NASA Task Book Site (Electric-Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames)

December 9, 2019 by YCC

NASA has implemented our “E-FIELD Flames in µg on the ISS” image on the Task Book site.

This image is composed of three types of methane diffusion flame applied with different electric field forces experimented from the International Space Station. The flame images are original sizes relative to each other without alternation.

This representative image of E-FIELD Flames research is designed and created by Dr. Chien.

E-FIELD Flames image on task book site

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ASGSR 2019 – American Society for Gravitational and Space Research: E-FIELD Flames

November 21, 2019 by YCC

Dr. Chien presented “Microgravity Experiments Examining Electric Field Effects on Laminar Methane Gas-Jet Diffusion Flames,” at American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Annual Meeting 2019 in Denver.