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CPF - Critical Point Facility

CPF was the first space project realised at OIP in the late 80s. The Critical Point Facility was a sophisticated electro-optical system for microgravity experiments in space.

Name: Critical Point Facility
Mission: Spacelab IML
Application: microgravity experiments
Life: Realised in 1892

Instrument Description

OIP acted as a subcontractor for Fokker and MBB-Erno. The CPF was a multi-user facility to investigate near critical phenomena in transparent fluids under well defined conditions, which had successful flights with Spacelab IML-1 and IML-2 missions.

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