We are happy to announce, that Sebastian Gfellner received the 1st price in this year’s European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) 2021 Space Factor student contest. The aim was to introduce …
Our astronauts Fibi and Thor launched towards space and landed back on earth. But not only that – our biological team observed them for several weeks after that. Cameras were …
Some of our foraminifera travelled towards space with REXUS 25. On 11.03.2018 at 10.20 the sounding rocket launched from SSC Esrange Space Centre in Northern Sweden. The rocket reached a height …
In approximately half a year the sounding rocket REXUS 25 is going to launch with our experiment on board. We are working hard on the preparations. To get an overview …
It may not remain hidden from attentive readers, that something about this homepage changed: it is now called “FORAREX”, not “FORALEX”. ARE WE FORAREX OR FORALEX? Indeed this is confusing, …
How creatures are reacting to normal gravity we can see in our daily life. For our investigation something else is interesting: the areas of the force of gravity that are …
by Katrin Hättig Foraminifera are unicellular organism, which develop a unilocular to multilocular shell. Foraminifera are the stars of the project FORALEX (foraminifera low earth orbit EXperminet), where we examine …
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What is so special about foraminifera? Foraminifera are unicellular organism with an external calcium carbonate shell. This shell is a delicate structure comprised of layers of proteins and crystalline calcium …
