| Name | Gradflex - GRAdient-Driven FLuctuation EXperiment |
| Operational Nomenclature | Gradflex |
| URL | https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/investigation;investigationAcronym=Gradflex_RETR |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-oiy534f |
| Platform | Retrievable Facilities |
| HRE-E3P Category | Physical Sciences |
| Mission | Foton-M3 |
| Keywords | ESA Human and Robotic Exploration data, HREDA dataset, Human and Robotic Exploration Data Archive, ESA exploration mission data, human spaceflight experiment data, robotic exploration telemetry dataset, International Space Station experiment data, ISS Columbus module data, microgravity research dataset, life sciences space experiment data, space physiology measurements dataset, radiation exposure measurements spaceflight, life support systems performance data, closed-loop environmental control data, ECLSS telemetry dataset, astronaut biomedical monitoring data, space habitat systems engineering data, robotic surface operations dataset, planetary exploration robotics data, lunar exploration technology demonstration data, Mars analog experiment dataset, in-situ resource utilization ISRU experiment data, space systems engineering telemetry, mission operations engineering data, payload performance dataset, calibrated experiment data products, time-series telemetry data, spaceflight sensor measurements, ESA exploration science archive data, long-duration spaceflight research dataset |
| Team Coordinator Name | Alberto Vailati, Marzio Giglio |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Team Members | Gradflex_RETR |
| Publication | A Vailati, R Cerbino, Stefano Mazzoni, Marzio Giglio, Christopher J. Takacs, David S. Cannell, 2011, Non-equilibrium fluctuations on earth and in micro-gravity. The GRADFLEX experiment, Journal of Physics: Conference Series - International Symposium on Physical Sciences in Space 11-15 July 2011, 327, 012023, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/327/1/012023 Alberto Vailati, Henri Bataller, Mounir Bou-Ali, Marina Carpineti, Roberto Cerbino, Fabrizio Croccolo, Stefan Egelhaaf, Fabio Giavazzi, C Giraudet, Gabriela Guevara-Carrion, Dezsö Horváth, Werner Köhler, Aliaksandr Mialdun, Jeff Porter, Karin Schwarzenberger, Valentina Shevtsova, Anne De Wit, 2023, Diffusion in liquid mixtures, npj Microgravity, 9, 1, , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-022-00246-z 2011, The importance of mixing, http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEM03MD1XOG_index_0.html, , , ESA web portal A Vailati, R Cerbino, Stefano Mazzoni, Christopher J. Takacs, David S. Cannell, Marzio Giglio, 2011, Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity, Nature Communications, 2, article no. 290, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1290 A Vailati, R Cerbino, Stefano Mazzoni, Christopher J. Takacs, Marzio Giglio, DS Canell, 2008, Non-equilibrium fluctuations in microgravity : initial results of GRADFLEX aboard FOTON-M3, Journal of the Japan Society of Microgravity Application, 25, 617-621 |
| Temporal Coverage | 2007-09-14T00:00:00Z/2007-09-26T00:00:00Z |
| Mission Description | The HRE Data Archive (HREDA) collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972. |
| Creator Contact | https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/help/contact |
| Date Published | 2025-11-07T15:34:13Z |
| Last Update | 2026-07-09 |
| Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Credit Guidelines | European Space Agency, Alberto Vailati et al., 2025, 'Gradflex', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-oiy534f |
| Rights | Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. |