Launch of the MAPHEUS 14 research rocket in January 2024
Launch of the MAPHEUS 14 research rocket in January 2024
In January 2024, with over 14 experiments onboard, the MAPHEUS rocket reached an altitude of approximately 260 kilometres, providing over six minutes under microgravity conditions for its passengers. The payload was safely recovered just a few hours after launch, enabling studies into, for example, the formation of structures in soft matter with nanoparticles, the influence of gravity on processes in living neural networks and current encryption techniques for data transmission from orbit.
Credit:
Mathias Forsberg, Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)