Yutao Li of Sorbonne University adds: “A future ESA partial gravity flight campaign will be the occasion to analyse, for the first time, the size of the particles emitted by spreading flames under these conditions, which is crucial to develop tailored detection systems.”

“Collaboration has really been key to the tremendous progress we have made over the last decade,” concludes Prof. Grunde Jomaas of the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, who coordinates an international group, along with the ESA Topical Team ,focused on reduced gravity fire risk. “Sharing results from observations obtained in parabolic flights, along with drop towers and space experiments, gives early insights into fire behaviour in space, thus making progress towards a fire safe environment for human space exploration.”