E18 Space Detector Systems

22/11/2016

We are one of the ten finalists of this year's NASA iTech Challenge!

iTech is an initiative to fill critical technology challenges of future space exploration. NASA invited us and our partners from Airbus DS Space Systems to present our technology at the iTech Forum, held at NASA HQ Dec. 5 - 8.

Visit the iTech website if you want to find out more about the challenge.

http://nasaitech.com/journal/2016/11/21/nasa-itech-finalists-announced

NASA iTech Finalists Invited to Washington to Present Future Space Exploration Technology Ideas Ten finalists who submitted some of the most promising ideas to fill critical technology challenges of future space exploration have been invited to present their potential solutions at the 2016 NASA iTec...

18/11/2016

Can you spot our experiment?

We're currently at Paul Scherrer Institute, a particle accelerator facility, to test components for our MAPT detector and get some interesting physics data along the way.

On the picture, you can see the vacuum tank holding our experiment sitting in front of a giant magnet (painted in red), which is the end of our part of beam line here at PSI. We shoot a beam of charged particles onto a small detector to analyze how the materials we use behave exactly. This helps us to develop and fine-tune analysis techniques for the full-scale MAPT detector.

We've been here for a few days now, setting up the equipment and waiting for beam operations to start. Today we started the actual experiment and are recording data.

08/10/2016

We successfully completed our TDP-3 Vanguard experiment this week at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden. If you haven't been following the updates on the experiment's page, make sure to head over there and catch up on what we did.

Vanguard is the third mission that is being conducted within the Technology Demonstrator Platform (TDP) series of rocket and balloon experiments at Technische Universität Müchen (TUM). The first two missions were conducted during the 7th cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS program in 2013/2014 (see here and he...

18/02/2016

Michael explaining our MAPT detector to colleagues at the 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation at TU Wien.

www.vci2016.hephy.at

27/12/2015

We recently received notice from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) that the experiment we proposed for the BEXUS 22/23 campaign was selected to fly aboard a stratospheric balloon in October 2016!

More information soon to come - only one hint: the mission is called TDP-3 Vanguard ;)

07/12/2015

We're looking for a North American (US + Canada) or British undergrad student who would be helping us with testing one of our experiments for a couple of months during next summer. We're offering the position as part of the DAAD RISE summer research internship program. DAAD will pay you a 650€/month living allowance.

See the attached PDF for more info about the project. You would be directly involved with qualifying the hardware for its deployment to the ISS in 2017.

Shoot us a message should you have any questions. See https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/ for more info about the RISE program and for applying.

PS: Munich is a lovely city!

11/06/2015

We're at the ESA PAC Symposium to present our experiment for REXUS/BEXUS. And we were even featured in one of the overview talks!

05/05/2015

Registration is now open for the SpaceUp GLIC Munich, an unconference dedicated to everything related to space. Wonder what an unconference is? Visit www.spaceup.de to find out!

The SpaceUp GLIC website is now ready - Registrations are open. First come, first served! *Limited capacity*

www.spaceup.de

18/03/2015

Ever thought about doing particle physics in space? Here are some exciting thesis positions for you!

18/03/2015

It's launch day for SMARD! You can watch the livestream from Esrange Space Center here: http://esrange.insupport.se/
Follow SMARD's profile for updates and the exact lift-off time.

11/03/2015

Check out this nice new platform for space projects!

11/11/2014

To our German friends: watch this very nice episode of Quarks & Co to learn more about the Rosetta mission and the attempt to land on a comet for the first time. You will learn why tomorrow's events are so important for us to understand the formation of our solar system.

http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/quarks_und_co/videokommtdaslebenausdemall101.html

Wie ist das Leben auf die Erde gekommen? Möglicherweise aus dem Weltall? Denn auf Kometen, die auf die Erde stürzten, hat man Spuren organischer Verbindungen gefunden. Die Europäische Raumfahrtagentur ESA will dieser Frage ein Stück näherkommen und hat