Opportunities for young scientists

REXUS/BEXUS

The REXUS/BEXUS programme provides students with opportunities to conduct scientific and technical experiments on rockets and balloons under special atmospheric conditions. Experiments on a REXUS rocket must be completed within five minutes, while BEXUS balloons offer flight and experiment times of between two and five hours. A call of proposals is released in September of each year.

Student competition 'Überflieger 2'

From 23 August to 15 October 2021, students were able to submit proposals for experiments that were carried out on the International Space Station ISS in 2023 in the 'Überflieger 2' competition. The special thing about the competition is that the student teams not only provide the ideas for their experiments, but also design, build and test them themselves.