On a mission called Operation Maracati II, the Brazilian space agency launched a sounding rocket VSB-30 (photo). The same was raised to a height of 242 km and managed to stay one capsule for five minutes in microgravity and then be recovered by parachute. The rocket's payload consisted of several microgravity experiments including the solidification of several alloys, the kinetics of enzyme invertase, deposition of carbon nanotube films, heat disipdores satellites, boiling pentane. Other experiments included the effects of high acceleration on a GPS system as well as other educational experiments. More data (in Portuguese) on the website of the agency.
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