Boutique coffee lives in space and drinks coffee

According to foreign media reports, researchers at Portland State University have developed a technology that can drink coffee in a microgravity environment, or we can call it a microgravity drinking cup. According to the official news from Portland State University, the new design will enable astronauts to drink coffee in microgravity. Portland State University released the news last summer, and the current test is the second such attempt. Scientists think it is very difficult to drink coffee in a microgravity environment. This is reflected in the problem of tension on the surface of the fluid, and the very simple act of drinking coffee in daily life becomes extremely difficult in the microgravity environment.

Ph.D. student Drew Wolman and others have tested the new idea, and engineers believe that the coffee machine that can be drunk automatically in a microgravity environment should be smarter, such as a built-in chip that may control the fluid without the need for an auxiliary structure. At the hydrodynamics conference held in San Francisco from November 23 to 25, 2014, NASA scientist John Graff and others introduced coffee machines in microgravity environments. NASA expects to use SpaceX's rockets to send 3D-printed coffee cups to the space station in February 2015, allowing astronauts to enjoy the taste of coffee in space.

Microgravity coffee cup technology is already under development, and the whole device includes capillary channel flow, capillary channel flow experiment-2 and other components. Zero-gravity coffee cups actually make use of our capillary channel flow control technology to control the flow of coffee and realize the astronauts' desire to drink coffee in the space station. NASA expects to offer simple drinks such as fruit juices, peaches and mango milkshakes on the International Space Station next year.