For the past decade, the German (DLR) and Swedish (SNSA) space agencies have given the opportunity to university students to carry out scientific experiments on sounding rockets and balloons, the REXUS/BEXUS programme. This bilateral agreement has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration between the Swedish Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Our 500 kg rocket, RX27, will launch from the Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna, Northern Sweden in March 2020. The rocket will accelerate to 20 G and reach a speed of 4300 km/h, before getting as far as 100 km high. The payload will then fall back to Earth with a parachute.