10.11.2017
David Merges and Miles Lindner presented EXCISS at the event "music with usual means II" of SKOP – experimental music and art in interdisciplinary context. During the evening Harald Kimmig, an improvising musician, performer and composer played a violins solo and Peter Wießenthaner from Hackerspace Ffm e.V. played the electronically controlled bass flute.
13.10.2017
The members of EXCISS participated in this years Paneth Kolloquium – a European meeting about cosmochemistry, planetology and astrophysics in Nördlingen. Tamara Koch gave a presentation about "Experimental Chondrule Formation at the ISS (EXCISS)". Furthermore, posters were presented by the other team members.
26.09.2017
Johannes Weppler from the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) gave the talk "Überflieger - A Student Competition for ISS Experiments" at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide. The talk included information about the three project that will be send to the International Space Station next spring: EXCISS, ARISE and PAPELL.
05.09.2017
Tamara Koch, Yannik Schaper and Prof. Dr. Frank Brenker presented our project EXCISS during the panel discussion of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main. The public lecture "Die Zukunft der robotischen und bemannten Raumfahrt" was given by Dr. h. c. Thomas Reiter. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn moderated the evening.
31.08.2017
The Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main organizes a public lecture about "Die Zukunft der robotischen und bemannten Raumfahrt". Dr. h. c. Thomas Reiter, a former german astronaut, will give a talk followed by a panel discussion "Auf zur ISS!", where we will present our project EXCISS. The lecture will take place on 05.08.2017 at 7 pm at the Kundenzentrum of the Frankfurter Sparkasse (Neue Mainzer Straße 49, 60311 Frankfurt am Main).
09.07.2017
The development of our experimental setup is progressing very well. We are deciding which components to use and how to arrange everything. Many details have to be considered, e. g. the setup has to fit into a box of 10 x 10 x 15 cm, it has to survive the launch of the rocket and it has to work in space.
We are participating in the Night of Science at the Goethe University. Next to the exhibition about meteorites, at the second floor of the Geosciences building, we are presenting our project EXCISS.
29.05.2017
We awarded the winner of our design contest – Benjamin Siebert from the August-Bebel-Schule in Offenbach – with a trophy and a price. The other participants received a small present for their suggestions. Special thanks goes to the Goethe University, the Senckenberg Naturmuseum, the Night of Science and the Druckerei E. Sauerland for providing the prizes.
06.05.2017
Two exciting days at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Bonn lie behind us. Now we have to wait for the decision of the jury.
The picture shows the astronaut Gerhard Thiele with three members of the EXCISS-group and the model of the experimental setup, which was built using a 3d printer.
31.03.2017
EXCISS was chosen as one of eight ideas for the next round of the "Überflieger" contest. Our next stop is the two day workshop in Bonn at the DLR where we will present and develop our experiment in front of a jury of scientific experts. They will decide if our experiment will fly to the ISS in spring 2018 together with the german astronaut Alexander Gerst.
