Sweden - Texus 44 - ESA's first launch in 2008
The sounding rocket Texus 44 was successfully launched today from the Swedish Space Corporation’s launch facility Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. The launch took place at 11:30 (UT) and the rocket provided 376 seconds of weightlessness time for the 4 experiments on board. The Texus project is a sounding rocket programm with the primary aim to investigate the properties and behaviour of materials, fluids and biological samples in a weightlessness environment. Texus 44 is funded by ESA (European Space Agency) and carried out jointly by DLR, EADS Astrium, Kayser-Threde and Swedish Space Corporation.
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