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REXUS and BEXUS: Students fly their own research experiments on stratospheric balloons

With the completion of two research balloon flights, DLR and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) brought the first campaign of the joint REXUS/BEXUS student programme to a successful close on Thursday 9 October. On Wednesday 8 October 2008, the BEXUS 6 and BEXUS 7 balloons were launched from the European rocket and balloon launch site Esrange near the town of Kiruna in Sweden, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.

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