19/05/2026
The 46th DLR parabolic flight campaign is now underway aboard the Airbus A310 ZERO-G operated by Novespace.
Over the next flights, researchers from across Europe will transform the aircraft into a flying laboratory where experiments can be performed directly in microgravity conditions.
Onboard this campaign:
🌕 REGOBAM is studying how lunar dust melts and solidifies in microgravity using lasers, helping prepare future in-situ construction technologies for the Moon.
🧠 Clear Sky is investigating whether wearable neurostimulation could help astronauts maintain focus and motor performance during space operations.
🔴 CHARLIZE is recreating Martian conditions to better understand how dust and sand move on slopes under low gravity.
🦿 MoKoGravEx is exploring whether robotic exoskeletons could help astronauts adapt faster to microgravity by training fine motor skills on Earth.
❤️ ComFly is testing compression systems designed to stabilize blood circulation during rapid gravity changes.
🔥 FlameMaps is studying the behavior of extremely slow-burning flames in microgravity using alternative fuels.
⚡ DEPIK is investigating how electric fields can move liquids in weightlessness for future thermal management and fluid control technologies.
🧪 TEMPUS is levitating and melting metals without containers to study advanced materials under ultra-clean microgravity conditions.
From neuroscience to planetary science, fluid physics and advanced materials, the Airbus A310 ZERO-G once again becomes a flying laboratory for European research.
Novespace est une filiale du CNES Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg - Universität Duisburg-Essen - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - RWTH Aachen University - BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)