This video describes the development of the Solid Surface Combustion Experiment (SSCE) by researchers at NASA LeRC. The experiment studies fire spreading over a small solid fuel sample subjected to microgravity conditions in Earth orbit. Buoyant convection, which determines the heat transfer in fires on Earth, disappears in microgravity; hence, this experiment will help researchers understand how fires act on Earth. Released Dec 1992.
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