MEMS - based Inertial Navigation Systems onboard Balloons.pptVIP

16 Nov 2007 - Announcement of opportunity for BEXUS 7 experiments 7 Jan 2008 - Deadline for applications 28 Jan 2008 - Announcement of short-listed proposals and invitations to workshop 5-6 Mar 2008 - Workshop at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands 15 Mar 2008 - Announcement of final selection of the experiments for BEXUS 6 7 flight 21-25 Apr 2008 - Student Training Week and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) at Esrange in Kiruna, Sweden 20 June 2008 - Critical Design Review (CDR) end Aug 2008 - Delivery of experiments to Esrange for Experiment Acceptance Review (EAR) tbd Oct 2008 - BEXUS 7 Launch Campaign at Esrange 15 Jan 2009 - Submission of Experiment Reports to ESA ? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MEMS - based Inertial Navigation Systems onboard Balloons 1st Workshop on Science and Technology through Long Duration Balloons, INAF-Rome, June 3-4, 2008 Rexus - Bexus is a bilateral German-Swedish cooperation to offer students experiment opportunities using sounding rocket and stratospheric balloon flights from Esrange in Northern Sweden. Each flight will carry a payload consisting solely of student experiment. An announcement of opportunity was made in November 2007 for flight campaigns in 2008 and 2009. - Esrange Space Center is located in northern Sweden, 45 km from the town of Kiruna at 67oN, 21oE - Esrange has been the site of many campaigns, involving different types of balloons (more than 500 launches) BEXUS experiments are lifted to an altitude of 20-35 km for a flight duration of 2-5 hours, depending on total experiment mass (40-100 kg). The balloon has a volume of 12000 m3, and an inflated diameter of 14m Flight duration: 2-5 hours Altitude: 25-35 Km Acceleration: -10g vertically and ±5g horizontally Landing velocity: 8 m/s (approx.) Thermal environment: down to -90 °C Our entry for BEXUS payload selection is LOWCOINS, for LOW COst Inertial Navigation System, an experiment based on the recently