Month: November 2024

On Monday, November 25th 2024, SETH presented their experiment proposal to an international board of experts who will decide if we are chosen for BEXUS cycle 16.

We believe the presentation went well, as the ensuing discussion featured mostly content related questions and no critical remarks that showed scepticisim by the board.

We also had the opportunity to hear the proposals of all other REXUS and BEXUS candidates and wish everyone the best of luck and hope they will be accepted.

The decision which experiments will receive DLR support and are accepted for the BEXUS mission will be published until the 18th of december when the invites for the preliminary design review, as well as the student training week are sent out.

CHAOS successfully launched as part of the stratospheric balloon mission BX35 on the 2nd October 2024. At the moment, we are in the middle of the data evaluation and the first results look very promising. In January, we have to submit our final results which will mark the end of CHAOS as part of BEXUS.

But Kiel University is not done yet. Currently, a new team of students is forming to apply to the next BEXUS cycle with the instrument SETH. So, CHAOS is passing on the torch. And fittingly, SETH is the Egyptian god of CHAOS…

You can find some photos from CHAOS’s launch campaign in Kiruna, Sweden below.