Foraminifera traveling to space

Our dream to examine the marine unicellular organism foraminifera under microgravity became reality on 11th march 2019. Our experiment launched towards space with REXUS 25 and landed approximately 2 minutes …

Assembling the rocket REXUS 25

How was the rocket REXUS 25 assembled with all of the experiments? Bremen to Esrange Space Centre The main part of our experiment was send beforehand in a huge package …

Flight Simulation at DLR

The Bench Test at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen was one of the final technical tests before launch of the REXUS rocket in march 2019. communication system test The first day was especially …

The World Of Space Visits Bremen

As you probably know the International Astronautical Congress 2018 took place in Bremen – our town. In cooperation with REXUS/BEXUS we were lucky to present our project as well as …

Functional Test of the FlowCell

During the functional test the foraminfera was injected into the FlowCell for the very first time. The FlowCell will be home to them during the rocket experiment. On the one …