Our Mission

We conduct research for space and under space conditions, because space science and technologies play an important role in our day-to-day lives. But before anything can be used in everyday life, fundamental research must pave the way. This is our job.

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    New Research Enhances Oxygen Production for Space Missions

    A team of researchers has found a way to make oxygen production in space lighter, easier, and more sustainable — using magnetism. The team described their system and demonstrated its effectiveness in a recent article in Nature Chemistry.

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    Flame propagation experiments on the ISS

    Experiments on the ISS will show how quickly fire can spread on spacecraft and what implications this will have for future space missions. The research is carried out by scientists from ZARM and the Gifu University in Japan.

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    Congratulations to Marvin Warner on his Successful PHD Defense

    On July 2, 2025, Marvin Warner, a true homegrown talent of the University of Bremen, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Enabling Ultra-High Vacuum for Quantum Optical Instruments in Space.”

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  • | Scientific Talks

    ZARM Talk: Ultra-cold atoms in microgravity

    On July 10 at 2 p.m., Marian Woltmann explains how bringing Bose-Einstein condensates into microgravity enables new applications and unprecedented precision for cold-atom quantum technologies.

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    ZARM Talk: Atoms, Gravity, and the Quantum Puzzle: Where Do We Stand?

    How well do we understand how atoms fall in a gravitational field? Can we extract reliable and testable information from theories that seem fundamentally incompatible? Join the talk on 3 July 2025 at 2 pm at ZARM.

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    Beware: Our gravity is changing!

    Explore how Earth’s gravity is shaped by hydrology. On July 01 at 14:00, Alka Singh from the Amrita University in India explains how suites of satellites provide us a bird's eye view on hydrological processes.

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