* Astronomy

The sounding rocket Texus 44 was successfully launched today from the Swedish Space Corporation's launch facility Esrange Space Centre 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 programme 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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