Microgravity Science and Technology – An International Journal for Microgravity and Space Exploration Related Research is a is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with all topics, experimental as well as theoretical, related to research carried out under conditions of altered gravity.

Microgravity Science and Technology publishes papers dealing with studies performed on and prepared for platforms that provide real microgravity conditions (such as drop towers, parabolic flights, sounding rockets, reentry capsules and orbiting platforms), and on ground-based facilities aiming to simulate microgravity conditions on earth (such as levitrons, clinostats, random positioning machines, bed rest facilities, and micro-scale or neutral buoyancy facilities) or providing artificial gravity conditions (such as centrifuges).

Data from preparatory tests, hardware and instrumentation developments, lessons learnt as well as theoretical gravity-related considerations are welcome. Included science disciplines with gravity-related topics are:

−    materials science
−    fluid mechanics
−    process engineering
−    physics
−    chemistry
−    heat and mass transfer
−    gravitational biology
−    radiation biology
−    exobiology and astrobiology
−    human physiology

 

Microgravity Science and Technology contains original scientific articles and notes as well as extended review papers on selected topics from the fields defined above. Contributions from fundamental and application oriented research are invited as well.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Valentina Shevtsova
Microgravity Research Center, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Associate Editors
Dr. Ruth Hemmersbach 
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Biomedical Science Support Center (BSSC), Cologne, Germany
Prof. Tatyana Lyubimova
Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia
Dr. Dr. Thu Jennifer Ngo-Anh
Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Prof. Raffaele Savino
Industrial Engineering Department, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
Prof. Dr. Jian-Fu Zhao
Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Former Editors
Prof. Dr. Michael Dreyer (Editor-in-Chief Vol. 19/5-6 September 2007- Vol. 28/5 September 2016)
Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Rath (Founding Editor, deceased September 2012)
Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, Germany
Editorial Advisory Board
Prof. M. Avila, Bremen, Germany
Prof. W. R. Hu, Beijing, China
Prof. O. Kabov, Novosibirsk, Russia
Prof. J. Kim, College Park, Maryland, USA
Prof. J. van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands