BEXUS/FaNS

Fast Neutron Spectrometer, an experiment designed at @kieluni to fly on a baloon by @REXUSBEXUS.

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Sounds all nice, but what are you exactly doing?
Building a detector to measure fast electrons in some 25km height on board a @REXUSBEXUS balloon. We are a group of 5 physics students from @kieluni, ranging from Bachelor- to PHD-students, all focusing on extraterrestrial physics.

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

For those of you who are not physicists and might have trouble understanding what we are measuring, we will post some info about it in the next few days. #Physics #PhysEd @REXUSBEXUS

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Why is it so hard to measure neutrons?
Any particle measurement needs some kind of interaction between said particle and the detector. Most detectors use electro-magnetical interactions. Since neutrons are neutral, there is no such electrical interaction with them. #physics

[Yannis Zouganelis @SolarBoy_2020]

As of today May the 4th, our @ESASolarOrbiter is inside the orbit of Venus! May the Fourth be with it!

[MullardSpaceScience @MSSLSpaceLab]

A great milestone for our instrument on the @ESASolarOrbiter spacecraft. Congratulations to the team!

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

The FaNS and Carsten are in their way to Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig for its first Neutron test!

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Team FaNS is not lucky with flights... Now our bags decided to stay in Copenhagen a little longer...

[STRATOSPOLCA @stratospolca]

Our Team Leader just gave an interview as part of the Workshop at ESRANGE Science Center 📡🎈🚀

[Daedalus Project @daedalus_rexus]

Our team was delighted to meet so many women at the #Rexus/#Bexus Training Week! We were able to celebrate the @UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day together! #Diversity is essential in #spaceengineering!

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

After 48 hours of delay, 3 trips to Hamburg and 2 back, 3 1-hour flights and a 45 minute drive, we finally arrived at Esrange last midnight. Definitely worth it!

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

In case you are near Kiel and ready to get up quite early next Monday, you can watch the start of Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft containing multiple instruments from Kiel University, live! In case you are interested: Launch could be delayed, stay up to date.
https://t.co/gkDPkTrmqg

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Next week is REXUS/BEXUS training week in northern Sweden! Hoping for some aurora (and also some nice input)...

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

We were officially accepted to fly on BEXUS.
Congratulations to everybody else who will be with us!

[DLR_de @DLR_de]

An den letzten beiden Tagen fand im Bonner DLR Raumfahrtmanagement wieder ein Auswahlworkshop mit 9 Teams für REXUS/BEXUX statt. 👍 🚀 Informationen zu unserem Studierendenprogrammen @REXUSBEXUS (Raketen- und Ballon-Experimente) findet ihr auf https://t.co/Ktz6SRx6ny

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Görkem and Hauke at the selection workshop in Bonn. Their talk seems to have been good. #bexus #bonn

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

Our team is at the #bexus selection workshop in Bonn right now, wish us luck!

[BEXUS/FaNS @BexusF]

A first glimpse at our experiment, as it is right now #bexus #physics #unikiel