{"id":736,"date":"2015-04-01T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/class\/?p=736"},"modified":"2021-11-23T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:19:50","slug":"seminar-series-justin-karl-department-of-mechanical-and-aerospace-engineering-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/seminar-series-justin-karl-department-of-mechanical-and-aerospace-engineering-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series: Justin Karl, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheaper Private Suborbital Flight Opportunities On The Horizon- Research Implications&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<br \/>\n<\/strong>As private suborbital spaceflight providers inch toward viability, space tourism is the focus of the media\u2019s attention. \u00a0However, companies such as XCOR and Virgin Galactic will also have a secondary impact- significantly lowering the costs of small payload slots. \u00a0With freefall periods that last several minutes and microgravity periods that exceed the length obtainable by aircraft on reduced gravity parabolas, what advantages will researchers have in this new class of flights? \u00a0Research with collision dynamics, dust accretion, sputtering, chemical reactions, and other processes will be explored. \u00a0Specific implications for experiments backed by institutions such as UCF\u2019s Center for Microgravity Research will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation can be seen here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V7ZA7zyFsxE\">View Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheaper Private Suborbital Flight Opportunities On The Horizon- Research Implications&#8221; Summary As private suborbital spaceflight providers inch toward viability, space tourism is the focus of the media\u2019s attention. \u00a0However, companies such as XCOR and Virgin Galactic will also have a secondary impact- significantly lowering the costs of small payload slots. \u00a0With freefall periods that last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}