TEXUS 49 Lifts Off with Four German Experiments on Board
Hello reader! It follows one communicates published in english on the day ( 29/03 ), in the site of the "German Aerospace Center (DLR)" , announcing that the VSB-30/TEXUS 49 lifts off with four german experiments on board. Duda Falcão TEXUS 49 Lifts Off with Four German Experiments on Board 29 March 2011 - 11:22:28 TEXUS 49 launch The TEXUS 49 sounding rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 29 March 2011 at 06.01 CET. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) rocket, carrying four German experiments for medical and materials research, reached an altitude of 268 kilometres. The experiments were subjected to close to six minutes of microgravity during the twenty-minute long flight before the payloads were parachuted back to Earth, as scheduled. Alloys in Microgravity TEXUS' main payload was the German-developed electromagnetic levitation system (Elektromagnetische Levitationsanlage; EML). With it, research scientists fro
