| Rexus & BEXUS Final Results Symposium in Bremen |
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 Sven Grahn at the airport. This week I traveled to Bremen, together with our Director General Olle Norberg and space expert Sven Grahn to participate in "Rexus & BEXUS Experimental Results Symposium" - a workshop for students in autumn 2009 and spring 2010 conducted space experiments in rockets Rexus-7 and Rexus -8 and balloons BEXUS BEXUS 8 and-9.
Student activities at Esrange started back in 1995 when the first
Rexusraketen was launched. The program was re-launched in 2007 when
Rexus & BEXUS became a Swedish-German student programs with the
European Space Agency ESA as a partner. The program Rexus & BEXUS is
now open to university students and graduate students from all ESA
Member States and cooperating countries. Two students and two student
rocket balloons to be launched from Estrange annually by about 10-12
student experiments combined.  Olle Norberg to the KTH students Erikssund and Christian Jonsson from Lapland team. The objective of the workshop was to give students the opportunity to present results from its space experiments, share experiences, get feedback from experts and meet people from all space companies. In total, about 80 people in the gathering - enthusiastic Rexus & BEXUS students from several European countries, representatives from space agencies, experts from research institutes and aerospace enterprises. The latter actively watched for possible future employees. Sven Grahn was one of seven specially invited experts who were part of the panel that would question the students and come up with constructive criticism and advice for future space experiments. Sven felt it was particularly gratifying to participate in the workshop when he was one of the initiators of the first Swedish Rexusraketen at Esrange 1995th Students' presentations were very professional with good text and images, clear message and honest analysis of their successes and mishaps. The experiments were quite difficult and in various technology and research - among these was sun sensor, flying recoverable capsule for the measurement of electric and magnetic fields in space, plant to counteract disturbances during sounding rocket flight, balloon-based micro-gravity platform, space equipment for receiving signals from ships, sensor for atmospheric measurements, etc. Do you know more about the various projects - please visit the Internet and search for reel. SMART, Vibra-Damp, TUPEX-3, Lapland, BUGS, Navis, COMPASS, CRIndions, Mondaro, MATI and SO-High ( you will find many fun YouTube clips and other useful materials). Many students reported that participation in Rexus & BEXUS has been the most fun and educational time for their studies - in addition to the construction of the space experiment, they learned project management, preparation of documentation, teamwork and "outreach" Anyone who has a foot in the space business know that it is not really "100% success rate" applicable to a particular space experiments. In case the students could clearly see that it were mostly electronics experiments that had been smooth, while experiments with elements of complex mechanical structures were more demanding? In Bremen we also took the opportunity to visit the 146 m high tower case, which performs short-term experiments under weightless safety free fall with or without a catapult - more on this in a later post. |
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