The educational programmes with involvement of DLR's Mobile Rocket Base

Abstract

Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA), a department of German Aerospace Center's Space Operations and Astronaut Training provides the national and international scientific community with opportunities to prepare and implement rocket- and balloon-borne experiments. The fields of research include aeronomy, astronomy, geophysics, material science and hypersonic research. Further, MORABA supports educational programs for scientific experimentation as well as engineering disciplines. This paper presents MORABA's involvement in the educational programs "STudentische Experimental-RaketeN", or STERN shortly, and REXUS / BEXUS. On one side, STERN supports students from aerospace universities across Germany to design, build, test and launch their self-developed rockets. On the other side, the REXUS/BEXUS programme allows European students to carry out scientific and technological experiments on research rockets and balloons. We discuss the different technical views and outputs of the MORABA activities within these programmes. In conclusion, the range of different topics makes the programmes very effective and enhances various skills of the participating students, partners including MORABA.