Ground Control Group
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 …
Our astronauts
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 …
Our experiment becomes reality
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 …
Forarex or Foralex?
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, …
Hypergravity (and why we need it)
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 …
Profile: Foraminifera
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 …
(Deutsch) Foraminiferen – „Kammer” Das Noch Sehen
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What are we investigating?
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 …