The REXUS program is a joint project between SSC, Esrange Space Center, and the Mobile Rocket Base (Moraba) of DLR, conducted by EuroLaunch.
Half of the payload is reserved for German students, while the Swedish half has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with ESA Education. REXUS is considered as an annual sounding rocket program, launched from Esrange Space Center, Sweden.
General information
| Launch site |
Esrange Space Center |
| Launch date |
February 23, 2011 at 10:00 UTC |
| Customer |
Student programme |
Technical information
| Rocket type |
Improved Orion rocket |
| Nominal diameter |
356 mm |
| Total weight |
542 kg |
| Burning time 1st stage |
26 s |
| Max acceleration |
21 g |
| Apogee |
~82 km |
| Flight time to apogee |
~144 s |
Experiment modules
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DLR sponsored experiments:
- GAGa (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany): Granular Anisotropic Gases - study of the effects of anisotropy on granular gas dynamics.
- FOCUS (Technical University of Munich, Germany): First Orbit Curing Experiment of University Students - development and flight testing of a deployable structure with a resin matrix that will be cured after deployment.
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ESA/SNSB sponsored experiments:
- SQUID (KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden): Spinning QUad Ionospheric Deployer - wire-boom deployment system.
- M-BEAM (Higher Technical College of Electronics, Moessingerstrasse, Austria): Magnetic BEAring for brushless DC Motor - determining of magnetic bearings for asynchronous motor for maintenance-free operation of gyroscope in microgravity.
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Contact persons
Olle Persson, EuroLaunch (SSC), olle.persson@sscspace.com
Andreas Stamminger, EuroLaunch (DLR), andreas.stamminger@dlr.de
Read more
REXUS/BEXUS website
ESAs website for REXUS and BEXUS
