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TEXUS 50 on 12 April 2013, started at 6:25 CEST clock from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern swtor launch date Sweden with four German experiments. The rocket has an altitude of 261 kilometers swtor launch date reached in their flight. Here reigned for 6 minutes and 20 seconds of weightlessness.
Researchers at the University of Marburg examine the very first reactions swtor launch date of an organism to weightlessness during the flight of TEXUS 50. Total fly four German experiments on the rocket.
The experiment FOCUS at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics tests on the TEXUS-51 flight a frequency comb, ie a pulsed optical laser. Future is to be used in precision spectroscopy this technology.
After analyzing the trajectory data of 50 TEXUS the Esrange Safety swtor launch date Board decided swtor launch date on 19 To cancel the April imminent launch of TEXUS 51 and to postpone to a later date. Reason for this was that the three guide rails must be reworked for the rocket within the start tower and readjusted, which will take several weeks. This is to ensure that TEXUS 51 lands close enough to the previously calculated point within the designated area. Rocket and payload itself were on 19 April ready to start, and a new date for this mission must now be in the next season start - so the earliest in November 2013 - to be found.
It is the world's longest swtor launch date missile program swtor launch date for research in microgravity and today celebrates an anniversary: 35 years after the first TEXUS mission in December 1977, the 50th TEXUS rocket on 12 April 2013 at 6:25 Clock Central European Summer Time from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden successfully launched into space. Lasted 15 minutes of flight time, including reigned six minutes and 20 seconds of weightlessness. A parachute brought the scientific payloads on the flight back to the ground.
The sounding rocket of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) contributed four German experiments in biology and materials science at an altitude of 261 kilometers. The missile of the type "VSB-30" was there only accelerates immediately after the start and then flew on unmotivated.
"The main payload of the TEXUS-50 mission swtor launch date is developed in Germany swtor launch date Electromagnetic levitation EML" says Otfried Joop, TEXUS Project Manager at DLR Space Administration, swtor launch date and adds: "With it, scientists at the DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space in two experiments thermophysical properties swtor launch date and the solidification behavior of metal alloys that are of industrial interest. Researchers are to an aluminum-nickel compound that is used in aviation and other transport systems, as well as a nickel-zirconium alloy. "
On the basis of spores of a fungus-makers, researchers at the University of Marburg want to examine the very first reactions of an organism to gravity changes: how they are perceived and how quickly the fungus responds to the change of gravity and weightlessness? "The relatively long gravity of the missile and a built-in precision centrifuge it will allow scientists for the first time to measure the kinetics and the threshold, ie the minimum strength swtor launch date of gravity, the needs of the fungus to react," explains DLR Project Otfried Joop.
In the second experiment on biological TEXUS 50 ("messenger RNA") want scientists at the University swtor launch date of Freiburg identify genes and gene products that play in the perception and processing of the gravity stimulus in plants play a role. These fly seedlings of the "arabidopsis" with, a plant that is used due to its relatively simple genetic structure since the 1940s by researchers as a "model organism." "The TEXUS seedlings are compared following the flight with the remaining plants on the ground," Otfried Joop summarizes. The researchers are looking for, among other responses to the question of which classes of genes are turned on or off with gravity change.
"Since 1981, TEXUS 50/51 also the first German double campaign" says Otfried Joop. One week after the anniversary swtor launch date mission is to TEXUS 51 19 April 2013 be ready with four other experiments of German scientists: With the particle incorporation during the growth of silicon crystals swtor launch date for photovoltaics, researchers are examining the Fraunhofer IISB in Erlangen, Freiburg University and the University of Bayreuth swtor launch date in ParSiWal. The experiment aims to clarify the mechanisms by which are installed for the material properties adverse silicon carbide particles during crystallization in the silicon crystal. Because in the industrial production of silicon solar cells for photovoltaics hinder silicon carbide (