PR⁴ Space

On the 13th of December we will tell about our journey of developing and launching a measurement system to track a sounding rocket during flight using Radio Interferometry, and to measure Cosmic Ray Arrival Direction, in development of a potential climate sensor. Follow the link below to register and be there! The event will take place from 16:00 to 21:30

Today NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronauts Danny Olivas and Carl Walz visited Radboud University and the PR⁴ Space lab, connecting with our students, and showing great interest in the team's work. 📷 by Frank Timmers

(2/2) The second paper to be published in the proceedings of the 26th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon programmes and related research, held in Lucerne last may, is about the radiation measurement experiment of the team. Publishing these two papers would not have been possible without the support of the Radboud Radio Lab at Radboud University, the Electronic Systems group at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the REXUS/BEXUS organisation along with SSC - Swedish Space Corporation, ZARM, MORABA GROUP, Rymdstyrelsen, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and European Space Agency - ESA. Furthermore, the team has been sponsored by Hamamatsu Corporation, HARTING Technology Group, NXP Semiconductors, Coilcraft, Inc. and AISLER. Special thanks go to our supervisors and mentors Roel Jordans, Christiaan Brinkerink, Sjoerd Timmer, Bjarni Pont, Armelle Frenea Schmidt, Esmée Menting and Paolo Concari.

(1/2) Last week, the PR⁴ Space team finished two papers that will be published in the proceedings of the 26th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon programmes and related research. In october, the papers will be published here: https://lnkd.in/e9SArMiT For those who cannot wait, the first paper can already be found attached! 🚀

Misschien heb je wel eens naar een live raketlancering gekeken van NASA of SpaceX, en daarbij ook wel dat gespannen gevoel gehad terwijl er van 10 werd afgeteld tot lancering. Maar hoe gaat zo'n lancering nou eigenlijk in zijn werk? En wat als je daar zelf bij mocht zijn?   Deze aflevering gaan Sophie Schot en Bob Stienen in gesprek met Sam en Daan, studenten en lid van het PR4-space team. In dit team ontwikkelen zij experimenten die vervolgens gemonteerd worden op een raket, die wordt gelanceerd. En daar zijn zij zelf van begin tot eind bij betrokken. Hoe ontwerp je eigenlijk een experiment dat op een raket zit? En wat doe je als er, net voor lancering, iets stuk gaat? 🎧 Beluister de podcast nu: https://lnkd.in/eQcqkXWD IMAPP research Radboud University

Launch Campaign 🚀 - Day 10 Lift Off! REXUS 31 was launched at 13.00 PM on thursday march 14th, carrying both our radiation and radio interferometry experiment. Stay tuned for our first results!

Launch Campaign 🚀 - Day 9 On the last day before lift off at the REXUS/BEXUS launch campaign, the team has done final preparations on the beacons of the radio interferometry experiment. After this, we have signed our experiment ready for launch!

Launch Campaign 🚀 - Day 8 The alarm went off early for the team as we had the first launch of the campaign! REXUS 32 launched at 6.15 AM carrying four experiments of student teams participating in the REXUS/BEXUS campaign! The rocket was successfully recovered and the first experimental results look promising. Our experiment is on the REXUS 31 rocket, which was rolled out and is now scheduled to be launched on thursday 14th of march at 11 AM if there are no weather delays.