Right now space engineers and scientists from all over Europe are visiting Esrange Space Center to prepare experiments within the TEXUS programme and two rockets will be launched for experiments in microgravity. TEXUS 46 is ordered by the European Space Agency, ESA, and TEXUS 47 is ordered by the German space agancy DLR.

The TEXUS project is a sounding rocket program with the primary aim to investigate the properties and behaviour of materials, chemicals and biological substances in a microgravity environment. The TEXUS program gives around six minutes of microgravity.

Read more about the experiments onboard TEXUS 46 and TEXUS 47.

Read more about the TEXUS rocket programme.