For BEXUS I (Balloon Experiment for University Students) + EBASS

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Launch site:European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden  
Launch team: SSC
Balloon: Open balloon (zero pressure)
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Campaign: BEXUS 
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BEXUS I (Balloon Experiment for University Students) + EBASS

Responsable institution:  Kiruna space and Environment Campus, KRM, Umeå University and Luleå University of Technology
Principal Investigator:  Mr O. Widell (SSC Esrange) / Mr J. Tanhua (KRM)

Sometime before a balloon campaign starts at Esrange every year is launched a balloon to test their technique and logistics systems. The students at Kiruna's different space related educations are offered the opportunity to send their own designed and built experiments with the balloon. The students are from the space engineering programmes at the Department of Space Science and from the technical high school programs.

Students from different years and courses are involved in the project, which means that different groups of students meet and get a chance to work together on the basis of their respective areas of competence. It is the students themselves who lead, design and build the experiments and the instruments destined for the balloon launch.

Most of the data to be collected during the balloon flight is used later in the courses. At left can be seen the gondola where the experiments are stored (click to enlarge).