Press & Media

The German Research Foundation (DFG) approves all proposals of the University of Bremen for research training groups, among them "Models of Gravity" headed by ZARM at the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg.

DLR and ZARM offer students the chance to create their own experiments to be carried out in the Drop Tower Bremen. On May 19, 2016, these set-ups will be tested in a 10-meter fall in the "Space Tower" of the DLR_School_Lab.

On May 2, 2016, the MICROSCOPE project reached a major milestone when the experiment was activated and started transmitting the first data.

On Friday, 29 April 2016, the outstanding scientific work of four young scientists will be awarded by the non-profit association "Friends of ZARM".

On 25 April 2016 at 23:02 hrs the Soyuz STA rocket launched successfully from Kuorou. Onboard is the MICROSCOPE satellite that might proof Einstein's theory of general relativity wrong.

On 16 April 2016 at 11.57 a.m. the ZEpHyR rocket was successfully launched in spite of heavy snowfall.

Read here about the suspenseful week the ZARM team spent at the rocket launching site Esrange in Kiruna, Sweden

In the early morning of 18 march 2016, the successuful launch of REXUS 19 took place. Along with three other student experiments, the sounding rocket carried the scientific payload of the UB-Fire team from the University of Bremen.

As of 1st of March 2016, Marc Avila holds the Chair in Fluid Mechanics of the University of Bremen and takes over the position of Executive Director of the ZARM.