1st of July – h.16:00 (CET): Leonardo Barilaro will present the SCRAT Experiment experience as guest of the CASS-E Team in a seminar @ the Cranfield University – UK .

From Cass-e website:

“Interested in finding out the details of our final launch and the science results obtained? All shall be revealed…

We have scheduled a seminar for the 1st of July at 3pm in Cranfield University so we will be very happy to see as many of you as possible there. Please let us know if you will be able to attend (team@cass-e.com) and feel free to invite colleagues you think might be interested.

For those of you who will not be able to make it to Cranfield we will be streaming the seminar live so that you can ask questions in real time. Details of the web stream to follow shortly.”

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It has been a great honour for the SCRAT Team to be invited to the new Selection Workshop in Estec (The Netherlands) as former students.

We had a prsentation to the new R/B Programme partecipants, about our experiment, our experience and what to expect from a real student space mission!

It was really nice to see again the Rexus-Bexus crew!

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At 7.26 the gondola has been cut-off from the balloon and is now falling down. In a few minutes the gondola will touch the Finnish ground!

Below the screenshot of the cut-off coordinates

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SCRAT is now floating over Finland, and all the team is still following its little creature.

Meanwhile, check out a photo of the upcoming dawn behind the Cathedral!

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Check out the sequence of the balloon releasing

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At 3.06 the balloon lifted off and SCRAT is now working!
All the team is really excited and is watching the real time results!

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The launch has been unfortunately cancelled due to wind condition… Maybe a further try tomorrow night.

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All Bexus 10 teams did the last checks and setups on their experiments. I-BATE checked the experiment with additional battery, CASS-E sprayed biological fluids, and SCRAT fixed the pin for the shaft!

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It has been a great saturday here in Kiruna for the SCRAT team!

After the presentation meeting we had an important consultation with the whole team, mr Selmo (the engineer who designed the electronic boards of SCRAT) and also toghether with our endorsing professor Alessandro Francesconi (calling from Padova).

Finally, also thanks to all the people from ESA and SSC working with us, we have been able to solve the last issues of the experiment and birng it to its final shape!

It’s a great pleasure to say that the experiment have been qualified!

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Getting ready for the shipment of the experiment to the space base of Kiruna, the team has finally time to upolad some of the most significant photos of the work done during the summer!
Check this out ;D

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