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Post-Flight Evaluation and Results

Arthur Scharf — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:20:54 +0000

We finally finished evaluating our gathered flight-data and analysing the problems we had during the rocket flight. The following paragraphs will give you a quick overview about our technical, operational and scientific results. For more information please check chapter 7 of our newest SED release in the Download Section. (And if this is not detailed… Continue reading...

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Back to Germany

Arthur Scharf — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:32:29 +0000

Since about two weeks we are back in Germany again. It a pretty relief to have a real sunset and dark nights again ;-) But we weren’t inactive since we got back! During the last week we developed a detailed plan, on how we are going to investigate the camera issue we had during the flight… Continue reading...

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Liftoff!

Arthur Scharf — Wed, 28 May 2014 21:57:31 +0000

After the cancelled launch of REXUS15 due to a problem with the umbilical, and a failed Communication Check for our experiment yesterday evening, we had a launch opportunity for the REXUS16 today and a lift-off at about 13:00 local time! The Communication Check failed, since we got weird data and failed self-checks from our Measurement Unit.… Continue reading...

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First Days in Kiruna

Arthur Scharf — Fri, 23 May 2014 08:32:43 +0000

On Monday morning all of our six team members got out of bed and knew: the most exciting part of the REXUS program is coming! We traveled from Würzburg to Frankfurt where we checked in at the airport, which was quite adventurous since Matthias had his 600mm lens, that looks like an over dimensioned… Continue reading...

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Bench Test in Oberpfaffenhofen

Arthur Scharf — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:42:05 +0000

Last Week four of our Team Members, Thomas, Florian, Sven and Jochen were in Oberpfaffenhofen at the MORABA – Labs for the Bench Test. During the Bench Test Week, all REXUS – experiments were mounted onto the real REXUS Service-Module, the Module which will distribute the Power and downlink the Data from the experiment modules,… Continue reading...

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Integration Week in Bremen

Arthur Scharf — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:48:20 +0000

During the last week, four of our team members were at the ZARM in Bremen, to have the Shaker and a full Payload Test. The first Day went quite well, we tested and improved a lot of our Procedures we will need and use during the Launch Campaign in Kiruna. On the second day our… Continue reading...

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New Press article about HORACE in the “einBlick”

Arthur Scharf — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:57:50 +0000

In yesterday’s issue of “einBlick”, the online news of University of Würzburg a nice article about our EAR was released. (in german only, unfortunately) and we’ve heard, that it shall be published also on the german ESA-webpage at the end of this week. Click the following link to see the full article.. http://www.presse.uni-wuerzburg.de/einblick/single/artikel/lift-off-a/

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