BECCAL-I
| Led by: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Blume |
| E-Mail: | 3621 |
| Team: | M.Sc. Tim Oberschulte |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Date: | 01-08-18 |
| Funding: | "National Space Program" of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) |
| Duration: | August 2018 - Dezember 2021 |
| Is Finished: | yes |
Project Description
The focus of the joint project BECCAL-I (Bose-Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Lab), funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is the investigation of experiment opportunities and technological prerequisites for experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensates on board of the International Space Station (ISS). Within the bilateral project between DLR and NASA, the design of a facility for atom optical experiments will be developed based on the existing experiments MAIUS and CAL. Due to the continuous microgravity environment, this facility allows experiments in a range from basic physics to preliminary studies for earth observation applications.
Since the continuous microgravity environment and the limitations of a space platform require continued miniaturization and automation of the experiment components, the Institute of Microelectronic Systems is working on optimizing experiment control and evaluation. The focus is on a high integration of control and evaluation tasks as well as the acceleration of computation intensive algorithms using FPGAs.
Video presentation about BECCAL.
Project partner
- Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), University Bremen
- Institut für Quantenoptik (IQO), Leibniz University Hannover
- Institute of Microelectronic Systems (IMS), Leibniz University Hannover
- Institute of Quantum Phsyics, Ulm University
- Ferdinand-Braun Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH), Berlin
- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
