The series of experiments has been going since 2016 so you can understand how fire behaves in microgravity.
How big a fire does it take for things to get bad for a crew?
David Urban, principal investigator of Saffire, said in astatement.
A sample of fabric burns inside an uncrewed Cygnus cargo craft during a previous Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment investigation, Saffire-IV.Image: NASA
The Saffire flow unit is a wind tunnel.
Once test conditions are set, we run electrical current through a thin wire, and the materials ignite.
The images and data were then sent to Earth for scientists to analyze.
But thats all come to an end after the last experiment was destroyed through atmospheric reentry.
Thankfully, the crew managed to extinguish the flames before the worst occurred.
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