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 22, 2011 at 12:56UT (13:56 local time) |
| 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 | ~80,6 km |
| Flight time to apogee | ~125 s |
Experiment modules
| DLR sponsored experiments: – REMOS (University of Stuttgart, Germany): REcession MOnitoring System. – EXPLORE (University of Stuttgart, Germany): EXPeriment for Liquid On-orbit Refueling. |
| ESA/SNSB sponsored experiments: – SPONGE (University of Padova & University of Padua, Italy): Sounding rocket Propellant OrieNtation microGravity Experiment – determining the propellant retention capabilities of the sponges used in rocket tanks. – Telescobe (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland): Demonstration of a new telescopic boom system. |
Contact persons
Olle Persson, EuroLaunch (SSC), olle.persson@sscspace.com
Andreas Stamminger, EuroLaunch (DLR), andreas.stamminger@dlr.de
