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.
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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
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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