China Reports Space Superconductor Test
China says it has become the first country to carry out superconductor research in space under micro-gravity conditions. The official New China News Agency said Friday that a satellite sent up Aug. 5 and retrieved five days later carried an yttrium-barium-copper product, a new superconductor material, into space for experiments.
It said as a result of the experiments, carried out by the Lanzhou Physics Insitute and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese scientists have obtained data on the smelting and re-crystallization of semiconductor crystals, learned about the smelting and solidification of alloys and liquid phase resolution of some materials.
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