Successful launch of cryogenic liquid experiment
For the first time in Europe, an experiment studying the behavior of liquid hydrogen in microgravity was carried out in space.On Sunday 22th of February at 07.52 UTC, the sounding rocket Cryofenix was launched fromSSC’s launching facility Esrange Space Center using a two-stage VSB30 rocket. Cryofenix reached an apogee of 265 km and the payload spent 6 minutes in microgravity. The experiment Cryofenix studied the behavior of cryogenic liquids as part of the French space agency CNES’ launcher technology program. Cryofenix completed the validation of various simulations of the