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CATE (Collisional Accretion Experiment) was selected by NASA in 2013 in the Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Program.

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The experiment will study the sticking and accretion of small particles onto a larger accreting body in vacuum and in microgravity to better understand particle interactions in proto-planetary disks and in planetary ring systems. The experiment is designed for parabolic airplane flights.