ADA Technologies recently confirmed that both NASA’s new space-bound fire extinguisher and the Spraytec laser diffraction spray particle size analyser from Malvern Instruments function in zero gravity just as well as they do on Earth. By carrying out droplet size distribution experiments on the infamous ‘vomit comet’, Zero Gravity Corporation aircraft, ADA and NASA researchers have shown that water atomisation is independent of gravity and the Fine Water Mist portable fire extinguisher (PFE) currently under development for use on the International Space Station (ISS) will put out fires in space safely and cleanly. “Malvern’s Spraytec is designed to make droplet size distribution testing as easy as possible, and was the ideal solution for testing ADA’s new PFE under microgravity conditions,” said project leader, ADA’s Thierry
Carriere.
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