COMPACT

COMPACT (Complex Plasma Facility) is a multi-user facility for the investigation of complex (dusty) plasmas under microgravity conditions aboard a space station.

COMPACT will feature large, extended three-dimensional dust clouds under nearly stress-free conditions and will be equipped with a whole suite of diagnostic and manipulation devices.

Scientific questions of this project include:

• Statistical physics of many-body systems
• Active and non-spherical particles
• Phase transitions and glass phases
• Nonlinear dynamics and turbulence
• Planetary physics
• Particles as diagnostics in plasmas

Science team core members (incl. official Science Definition Team) (list as json):

Name	Affiliation	Role	ORCID	ROR
Uwe Konopka	Auburn University, USA	SDT chair	0000-0003-2437-0965	—
Lenaic Couedel	University of Saskatchewan, Canada	SDT	0000-0003-0749-9273	—
Adrienne Dove	University of Central Florida, USA	SDT	0000-0001-5545-4454	—
John Goree	The University of Iowa, USA	SDT	0000-0002-3988-0848	—
Christina Knapek	University of Greifswald, Germany	SDT	0000-0001-7105-627X	00r1edq15
Michael Kretschmer	Justus Liebig University, Germany		0000-0002-0261-7309	—
Andre Melzer	University of Greifswald, Germany	SDT	0000-0001-9301-9357	00r1edq15
Daniel Mohr	University of Greifswald, Germany		0000-0002-9382-6586	00r1edq15
Markus Thoma	Justus Liebig University, Germany	SDT	0000-0002-8816-9120	—
Hubertus Thomas	DLR, Institute for Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space, Germany	SDT	0000-0001-8358-2023	—
Svetlana Ratynskaia	KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden	SDT	0000-0002-6712-3625	—
Zhehui Wang	Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA	SDT	0000-0001-7826-4063	—
Florian Zaussinger	University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany	SDT	0000-0003-0476-4537	—

COMPACT is an international project funded by the German Space Agency DLR with support from ESA, NASA and NSF.