Gravity Gradient Earth Sensor (GGES) Team

27/10/2015

Hello, I will close the page this week. If you want to capture any of the photos or comments, please hurry up.

27/02/2015

Shout out to the new center boosting student projects at EPFL!

15/05/2013

Official ESA's video of our campaign. It nice to see those images again!

Sequences extracted from the REXUS 11 and 12 campaign (March 2012) in Kiruna, Sweden.

22/11/2012

Thanks everybody for following the GGES adventure at ESRANGE! According to Facebook Insights, we reached 1'497 persons last week :)

19/11/2012

This afternoon, we had the post-flight meeting. It looks like this campaign and the projects were a great success for everybody! Congratulations!

18/11/2012

For those who understand German...

Wie lässt sich die Qualität der Schwerelosigkeit auf Forschungsraketen verbessern? Dieser Frage geht ein Studententeam der FH Aachen auf der Forschungsrakete REXUS 11 nach.

17/11/2012

After an initial look at our data, we are happy to say that one of our MEMS sensors worked well throughout the flight.

It was one of four on the experiment, but considering that these are some of the most compliant silicon micromechanical sensors ever made, the redundancy we built into the experiment turned out to be critical.

We will be doing a lot more data analysis before we know if the MEMS sensor was able to measure Gravity Gradient Torque.

Meanwhile, here is a video taken by the RAIN team from KTH Sweden. They were mounted in the payload stack below us.

The RAIN experiment onboard REXUS11 sounding rocket, Nov. 16 2012 Filmed using a GoPro HD Hero @ 59 fps www.rainexperiment.se www.rexusbexus.net The rocket i...

16/11/2012

As we're very serious operators, we follow the procedure to the letter and produce an exhaustive operation log as shown below.

16/11/2012

GGES has been a perfect baby during the flight :)) After the recovery, we will disassemble the experiment and get the data from the SD card and the internal CPU memory.

16/11/2012

There is also a live stream from radar hill :)

The REXUS/BEXUS programme is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with the European...

16/11/2012

Hot countdown has begun! Launch scheduled in 1 hour 30 minutes at 11:45!

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15/11/2012

Just finished flight readiness review! All teams are ready to go. Test countdown will start at 0615 tomorrow (Friday) morning. We still aim for a hot countdown with a launch window until 1200.