Wissen um 11: Mission SENSORIS – Die Vermessung des Erdschwerefeldes

In the organizer's words:

Knowledge at 11: Mission SENSORIS - Measuring the Earth's gravitational field

Lecture by Tim Gust

SENSORIS - derived from the Latin mensoris ("the surveyors") - is a research mission of the Institute of Aerospace Technology at Bremen University of Applied Sciences. The aim of the mission is to measure the Earth's gravitational field using low-cost mini-satellites known as CubeSats. Together with the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen (ZARM) and the DLR Institute of Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing, twelve CubeSats are to be launched into space in an initial development stage. SENSORIS is intended to provide science with daily resolutions of the Earth's gravitational field for the first time in order to enable a better understanding of our home planet in combination with the GRACE missions, for example.

In his presentation, the speaker will introduce the mission, explain why precise knowledge of the Earth's gravitational field is interesting, what contribution the SENSORIS mission can make to this and what influence the results will have on our everyday life in space.