Artificial "maple seeds" from rockets

Das Messgerät, das aus 75 km Höhe seinen Weg zum Boden zurück finden soll
Das Messgerät, das aus 75 km Höhe seinen Weg zum Boden zurück finden soll
The Space Team at TU Wien is launching an ambitious project together with the University of Würzburg. Measurement devices are going to be ejected from a rocket and will fall to Earth without a parachute. It's a bold idea, and no-one knows for sure if it will work. Tubular measurement devices will be transported to an altitude of 75 kilometres by a rocket and will then return to Earth undamaged and entirely unassisted. If this technology proves successful, it could be a great new tool for meteorological research. In recent years, the TU Wien Space team, a group of students at TU Wien (Vienna) has drawn attention to itself with successful rocket launches and satellite projects. Now, the students' association at TU Wien is joining forces with a student team from the University of Würzburg to make the idea of space probes autonomously returning to Earth a reality.
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