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 |
Launched 19 March 2012 at 14.05 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
- Suaineadh (Deployment and stabilisation of a spinning net)
University of Glasgow, UK anf KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- REDEMPTION (REmoval of DEbris using Material with Phase Transition: IONospherical tests)
University of Bologna, Italy
- SPACE (Suborbital Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment)
TU Braunschweig, Germany
- SOMID (Solid-borne Sound Measurements for the Independent Detection of Events on Space Vehicles)
University of Munic, Germany
- Telescobe (Demonstration of a telescopic boom system)
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
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Contact persons
Olle Persson, EuroLaunch (SSC), olle.persson@sscspace.com
Read more
REXUS/BEXUS website
ESAs website for REXUS and BEXUS
