URCA in Space: The Stellar Bottle Takes Off to the ISS!

A major new milestone has been reached in the project mentioned a few weeks ago: “A Champagne Bottle in Zero Gravity at URCA.” Two Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar bottles, specially designed to be enjoyed in weightlessness, have just lifted off toward the International Space Station aboard the AX-4 mission.

This historic event proudly involves URCA, through the work of Professor Gérard Liger-Belair and the Effervescence, Champagne and Applications team at GSMA (UMR CNRS 7331). Their research made it possible to understand the behavior of bubbles in microgravity, assess internal pressures in space conditions, and ensure the bottle’s safety during liftoff as well as in orbit.

This spaceflight, the result of a collaboration with Maison Mumm, Spade, Novespace, and Axiom Space, crowns a decade of research and testing… and places the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne at the heart of a world first: the tasting of champagne in space.

See you later, Space Bottle

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