The REXUS/BEXUS programme allows students from universities and higher education colleges across Europe to carry out scientific and technological experiments on research rockets and balloons. Each year, two rockets and two balloons are launched, carrying up to 20 experiments designed and built by student teams.
The REXUS/BEXUS programme is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through the collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).
Experts from DLR, SSC, ZARM and ESA provide technical support to the student teams throughout the project. EuroLaunch, the cooperation between the Esrange Space Center of SSC and the Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA) of DLR, is responsible for the campaign management and operations of the launch vehicles.
For further information visit:
www.rexusbexus.net
www.dlr.de/rexusbexus
www.esa.int/rexusbexus
If you want to be part of this great adventure, the call-for-applications for the Cycle 13 is now OPEN!
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Balloon EXperiments for University Students
With BEXUS, student teams from all over Europe are given the opportunity to conduct experiments in the upper atmosphere. The tests are installed in a medium-sized gondola, which will be transported with a sounding balloon to an altitude between 25 and 33 km. This gives teams an experiment time of between one and five hours, depending on wind direction and speed.
BEXUS thus allows experiments in extreme conditions such as thin atmosphere and very low temperatures, which has been used in the past in research areas such as astrophysics, biology, atmospheric research or radiation physics.
Each year, two BEXUS balloons are launched from the SSC Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden.
For further information see: rexusbexus.net/bexus/
Cycle 12 of the Rexus / Bexus program involves the following teams:
Bexus 28
BX28 – OOXYGEN (Organic Oxygen sensor reference experiment)
Technische Universität Dresden, GERMANY
Website: www.star-dresden.de
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX28 – GAMMA VOLANTIS (Nafion ozone sensor field test)
Technische Universität Dresden, GERMANY
Website: www.star-dresden.de
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX28 – IRISC (Infrared imaging of astronomical targets with a stabilized camera)
Luleå University of Technology, SWEDEN
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX28 – DESTINY (Detection of earthquakes through a stratospheric Infrasound study)
École Polytechnique, FRANCE
Website: www.destiny.binets.fr
Launch Date: TBD 2019
Bexus 29
BX29 – IROCS (Influence of radiation on charged spheres)
University of Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX29 – TARDIS (Tracking and attitude radio-based determination in stratosphere)
Sapienza University of Rome, ITALY
Website: www.tardis.s5lab.space
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX29 – R2C2 (Radar recognition of chaff clouds in the stratosphere)
Luleå University of Technology, SWEDEN
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX29 – TANOS (Thermal atmospheric neutron observation system)
Kiel University, GERMANY
Launch Date: TBD 2019
BX29 – SHADE (SDR helix antenna deployment experiment)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Launch Date: TBD 2019
Rocket EXperiments for University Students
REXUS enables student teams from all over Europe to conduct experiments under space conditions such as vacuum and weightlessness. With a sounding rocket of 5.6 m in length, the tests are placed on a parabolic flightpath with a maximum altitude of 73 to 93 km, which gives the teams an experiment time of about 3 minutes. After the flight, the experiments are retrieved for data analysis.
Each year, two REXUS rockets are launched from the SSC Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden.
For further information see: rexusbexus.net/rexus/
Cycle 12 of the Rexus / Bexus program involves the following teams:
Rexus 27
RX27 – BLACKBOX II (Locatable crash safety data storage device for sounding rockets)
University of Applied Science Bremen, GERMANY
Launch Date: March 2020
RX27 – HADES (Hayabusa-capsule active dynamic re-entry stabilisation)
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), SWITZERLAND
Launch Date: March 2020
RX27 – AIMIS (Additive manufacturing in space)
University of applied Science Munich. GERMANY
Launch Date: March 2020
RX27 – FLORENCE (Flow boiling regime in microgravity conditions experiment)
KU Leuven University, BELGIUM
Website: www.mech.kuleuven.be/en/florence-rexus
Launch Date: March 2020
Rexus 28
RX28 – SPEAR (Supersonic parachute experiment aboard REXUS)
Delft University of Technology, THE NETHERLANDS
Launch Date: March 2020
RX28 – TUPEX-7 (TU Berlin Picosatellite Experiment-7)
Technische Universität Berlin, GERMANY
Launch Date: March 2020
RX28 – ROACH-2 (Robotic in-orbit analysis of cover hulls 2)
University of Stuttgart, GERMANY
Website: www.ksat-stuttgart.de/roach-2
Launch Date: March 2020
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