Category: SETH

This week, four members of the team travelled all the way from Kiel to Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, to take part in the training week. Here we hear all kinds of lectures on all topics related to a space project. This includes for example mechanism design, implementation, system engineering but also outreach. Furthermore, we are guided through the huge premises of DLR and MORABA and get to know the other teams even better. We are looking forward to this great time and are grateful for the great experiences.

We will of course keep you up to date throughout the week, especially as our PDR (preliminary design review) is coming up soon. Stay tuned and follow us on Instagram at “seth.bexus”.

SETH was successfully accepted for the 16 cycle of the BEXUS programme! We are very happy about the acceptance and are looking forward to the new year. Many thanks to @germanaerospacecenter for this great opportunity.
Next up is the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in February. For this, we are travelling all the way to the south of Germany and are going to Oberpfaffenhofen as a team to present our current status. We will have more meetings in the course of the year, which we will of course keep you informed about.

Finally, in autumn this year, we will head to Kiruna, Sweden, for the flight campaign, where SETH will conquer the skies!

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.