MPE: PK-3 Plus missions overview

Here you can see an overview of all the missions done with PK-3 Plus. Each mission usually consists of a preparation phase (pumping), 3 - 4 days with experiments (ca 90 minutes each day), shut-down and storage of the experiment container. The data movies are stored on hard disk drives that are returned to earth in special transportation bags in a Soyuz space ship together with the ISS crew.

PK-3 Plus - Mission Overview

No.	Date	Crew/Cosmonaut	Experiments
1	01/2006	ISS12/Tokarev	Basic experiments
2	08/2006	ISS13/Vinogradov	Basic and critical point exp.
3	08/2006	Astrolab/Reiter	Critical point, basic exp. with stochastic excitation
4	10/2006	Astrolab/Reiter	Basic experiments with particle mixtures
5	02/2007	ISS14/Tyurin	Critical point; excitation & crystallisation
6	07/2007	ISS15/Yurchihin	Basic exp. with Neon; string fluids
7	12/2007	ISS16/Malenchenko	Crystallisation; shock waves; two-phase flows
8	03/2008	ISS16/Malenchenko	String fluids in Argon and Neon
9	07/2008	ISS17/Volkov	Crystallisation; RF excitation; Ne/Ar mixture
10	01/2009	ISS18/Lonchakov	Crystallisation & melting; bubbles in Ne; penetration
11	07/2009	ISS19/Padalka	High power/high pressure exp.; lane formation & phase sep.
12	01/2010	ISS22/Kotov	Lane formation & phase separation; agglomeration
13	07/2010	ISS24/Skvortsov	Decharging; High power/high particle density
14	01/2011	ISS25/26/Kalery	Crystallisation; RF modulation; self-excited waves
15	06/2011	ISS28/Volkov	Prolongation tests; crystallisation & lane formation
16	10/2011	ISS28/Volkov	Crystallisation; crystallisation; crystallisation
17	01/2012	ISS29/Kononeko	Statistic of crystallisation
18	06/2012	tbd	tbd