Abstract
Project MAUS is a part of the German material science programme and provides autonomous payloads for the Space Shuttle. These payloads are housed in canisters which are identical to those of NASA's Get-Away-Special programme. The main components of the hardware are: a standard system consisting mainly of power supply, experiment control, data acquisition and the experiment modules containing experiment specific hardware. Six experiments have been assigned to flight opportunities on early operational Shuttle flights. The experiments investigate the effects of reduced sedimentation, convection phenomena caused by temperature gradients, and the behaviour of dispersed particles ahead of a solidification front.
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