SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL: Space Systems/Loral donates $500,000 microgravity research facility to NASA.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-5 January 1999-SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL: Space Systems/Loral donates $500,000 microgravity research facility to NASA (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040199 NEW YORK -- A premier microgravity research facility, originally developed at a cost of more than $500,000, has been donated by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for use in its pioneering materials and fluid dynamics research program, it was announced today.

The facility, known as an electrostatic containerless processing system, is currently in use at MSFC, Huntsville, Ala. Dubbed the "electronic levitator," or ESL, this system helps scientists conduct research that may lead to discoveries of new, stronger, lighter alloys and metallic-electronic...