Materials experiment
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- OBJECT TYPE
- MICROGRAVITY FURNACE
- DATE
- 1987
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2001.0119.001
- MANUFACTURER
- ACR Electronic
- MODEL
- MASER 1
- LOCATION
- Sweden
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- Y50-501-1-01
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- GRADIENT FURNACE TEST UNIT
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL & SYNTHETIC CASING & PARTS, CARDBOARD COVERING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 42.6 cm
- Width
- 42.0 cm
- Height
- 13.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Space science
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- ACR
- Country
- Sweden
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1990'S
- Canada
-
SIMULATION FURNACE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH ONE OF SERIES OF MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS DEVELOPED BY DR. REGINALDSMITH ET AL OF QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY; THIS EXPERIMENT FLEW ON MASER 1. CANADIAN DESIGNED & MADE BLACK BRANT ROCKETS WERE USED AS LAUNCH VEHICLE IN SWEDEN'S MASER PROGRAM; BBVC WAS USED FOR MASER 1 IN 1987. - Function
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SIMULATION FURNACE USED FOR SAMPLE TESTING; FURNACE & CONTROLLER WERE USED TO MELT SAMPLES OF MATERIALS IN EXPERIMENT DESIGNED TO EXAMINE EFFECTS ON MATERIALS OF MELTING IN MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT. - Technical
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MASER WAS SWEDISH SPACE CORP. MICROGRAVITY MATERIALS RESEARCH PROGRAM. SSG OFFERED FLIGHT SERVICES WITHIN MASER PROGRAM, IN ADDITION TO DESIGN & MANUFACTURE OF SPECIFIC EXPERIMENT MODULES. MASER 1 WAS LAUNCHED FROM ESTRANGE IN SWEDEN ON MARCH 19, 1987. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- WHITE LETTERING ON FRONT READS "GRADIENT/ FURNACE/ TEST UNIT" & "ACR Electronic"; BLUE LOGO ON BACK READS "ACR/ Electronic" WITH LETTERING READING "SERIAL NO. Y50-501-1-01/ MADE IN SWEDEN"
- Missing
- UNKNOWN
- Finish
- GOLD COLOURED METAL CASING WITH BLACK PLASTIC FRONT; BLACK & GREY CONTROLS; RED & YELLOW SYNTHETIC BUTTONS
- Decoration
- N/A
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ACR Electronic, Materials experiment, before 1987, Artifact no. 2001.0119, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2001.0119.001/
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