BEXUS 28/29 student balloons successfully launched

November 4, 2019
BEXUS 28/29 student balloons successfully launched

Two student balloons in the BEXUS programme, BEXUS 28/29, have been successfully launched from Esrange Space Center.

BEXUS 28 was launched on 25 October 2019 at 04:21 UTC
BEXUS 29 was launched on 23 October 2019 at 04:33 UTC

Read more about the balloons and the experiments onboard.

Photo: BEXUS team, DLR

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