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BEXUS 38/39 – Meet the Teams
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BEXUS 38/39 – Meet the Teams

26/08/2026

These ESA supported student teams develop experiments that will be lifted up in the sky by a BEXUS balloon in October 2026. Meet the teams and learn more about their experiments.

BEXUS 38

BLESS – BEXUS HaLow Evaluation in Stratospheric Systems, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain

COATHEAL – In-Flight Demonstration of Self-Healing Coatings, Universitatea Politehnica din București, Romania

BEXUS 39

CHRONO-CAT – Characterization of High-altitude Radiation on Oscillator Noise and Output Stability + Radiation Detector Comparative Atmospheric Test, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

HELIA – High-altitude Exposure Laboratory for Incubation and Analysis: An Open-Source Incubator Platform for Isolating Stratospheric Radiation Effects in Human Cells, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

MIRAGE – Methane Infrared Absorption Gas Experiment, Uppsala universitet, Sweden

ROCSAR – ROtation Compensated Synthetic Aperture Radar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

For more information about the REXUS/BEXUS programme, visit: https://www.esa.int/Education/Rexus_Bexus