{"id":129667,"date":"2021-10-29T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/low-gravity-simulator-design-offers-new-avenues-for-space-research-and-mission-training"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:23:53","slug":"low-gravity-simulator-design-offers-new-avenues-for-space-research-and-mission-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/low-gravity-simulator-design-offers-new-avenues-for-space-research-and-mission-training","title":{"rendered":"Low-gravity simulator design offers new avenues for space research and mission training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-gravity-simulator-design-offers-new-avenues-for-space-research-and-mission-training2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have developed a new tool to help meet that challenge\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/novel+design\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">novel design<\/a> for a low-gravity <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/simulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">simulator<\/a> that promises to break new ground for future space research and habitation.<\/p>\n<p>Their new design for a magnetic levitation-based low-gravity simulator can create an area of low gravity with a volume about 1,000 times larger than existing simulators of the same type. The work was published in the journal npj Microgravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers. Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have developed a new tool to help meet that challenge\u2014a novel design for a low-gravity simulator that promises [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}