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Farewell 'Zero-G'

12/09/2014 1614 views 2 likes 322329 ID

Vladimir Pletser, ESA’s parabolic flight campaign manager, during one of  the final flights with the ‘Zero-G’ Airbus.  

The world’s largest aircraft for parabolic flights took its last trips  to weightlessness for ESA science this week. The converted A300 Airbus  flew for the 61st ESA campaign having completed over 450 experiments,  3500 parabolas and 20 hours on repeated microgravity rides. After 17  years of reliable service, it’s time to get new wings.  

Novespace, who own the aircraft, and is in charge of the organisation  and preparation of the parabolic flight campaigns, will replace the  'Zero-G' with an Airbus A310, a more modern and powerful aircraft.

More about ESA's parabolic flight campaigns: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Research/Parabolic_flights

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