A new experimental facility has been designed and constructed to study driven granular
media in a low-gravity environment. This versatile instrument, fully automatized, with a
modular design based on several interchangeable experimental cells, allows us to
investigate research topics ranging from dilute to dense regimes of granular media such as
granular gas, segregation, convection, sound propagation, jamming, and rheology—all
without the disturbance by gravitational stresses active on Earth. Here, we present the main …