Fluid Acquisition Resupply Experiment

Historically, there are two space experiments which employed a vane type PMD. The Fluid Acquisition Resupply Experiment-II (FARE-II) tested a vane type LAD using a simulant fluid onboard of the Shuttle mission STS-57 as its primary PMD (Dominick and Tegart, 1994 Dominick et al., 2011). The secondary PMD resembled that of a sponge. The purpose of the experiment was to establish vane performance limits in terms of maximum achievable expulsion efficiencies under adverse acceleration levels. A snapshot of the FARE-II experiment is shown in Eigure 2.10 (Dominick et al., 2011). This was a very successful mission which generated useful low-g data. 

FIGURE 2.10 Fluid Acquisition and Resupply Experiment-II Vane and Sponge with 10% Liquid Remaining in the Tank. 

Dominick, S., Driscoll, S., 1993. Fluid acquisition and resupply experiment (FARE I) flight results. In AIAA-93-2424, 29th Joint Propulsion Conference, Monterey, CA, Jime 28-30. 

Dominick, S.M., Tegart, J.R., Driscoll, S.L., Sledd, J.D., Hastings, L.J., 2011. Fluid acquisition and resupply experiments on space shuttle flights STS-53 and STS-57. NASA-TP-2011-216465. 

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