Spicy Bexus

Team SpiCy was born as a group of students from very different backgrounds with a common purpose: long-term oxygen production for space exploration. The team is based in Munich and the members are pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biology, Aerospace and Electrical Engineering and Communication and Media in the LMU, TUM and HM. For fulfilling that purpose, our multidisciplinary team has the mission to study the viability of Cyanobacteria in biological Life Support Systems. To assess the viability of our biological solution, we have to test our hypothesis and we chose the Programme REXUS/BEXUS for it. We have been selected for the BEXUS 15th Cycle. The project is supported by DLR, SNSA and ESA Education Office. The launch of our experiment to the stratosphere will take place in Kiruna during October 2024. To reach that point, the team has been invited to workshops and training weeks in the main European hubs for space reasearch like DLR HQ in Bonn, ESRANGE in Kiruna and ESTEC in the Netherlands. In all these initiatives, the team has to prove that their experiment and design where properly defined for the mission ahead. Throughout the process, we had the chance to meet students and professionals with our same interests in space research!