VSB-30/TEXUS 50, Launched from Esrange Space Center!

Hello reader!

It follows a note published on the day (04/12), in the website of the “Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)", informed that the Experiment TEXUS 50 was successfully launched from Esrange Space Center today.

Duda Falcão

TEXUS 50, Launched from

Esrange Space Center!

Around Six Minutes of Microgravity

12 April 2013

Smoke remaining from
the launch of TEXUS 50

The rocket was launched from Esrange Space Center on April 12, 2013 at 04.25 UTC.

Maximum altitude reached was 261 km and it landed 28 km north of Esrange Space Center.

Recovery is on-going and the payload will be brought back to the base for analysis.

Preparations will star for launch of TEXUS 51, which is planned to be launched in the end of next week.

TEXUS

The TEXUS programme started in 1977 and is carried out at Esrange Space Center jointly by DLR, EADS Astrium, Kayser-Threde and SSC.

The TEXUS project is a sounding rocket program with the primary aim to investigate the properties and behavior of materials, chemicals and biological substances in a microgravity environment. The TEXUS program gives around six minutes of microgravity.

Source: Website of the Swedish Space Corporation - http://www.ssc.se/

Comentário: Pois é leitor, foi lançado uma vez mais com sucesso o nosso VSB-30, dessa vez com o experimento TEXUS 50 a bordo. Em breve postarei a notícia em português e o relatório da missão será postado nos próximos dias.