ZARM

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ZARM logo (above the main entrance to the ZARM institute building)

The Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) is a scientific institute at the University of Bremen in the production engineering department . The institute building and research laboratories of ZARM are located in Bremen on the campus in the Bremen Technology Park in the Horn-Lehe district, Lehe district. Structurally dominant is the large ZARM laboratory for weightlessness research , which can be seen from afar , the almost 150 meter high drop tower .

history

The institute was founded in 1985 for research under space conditions and the investigation of issues relevant to space travel. The short name ZARM is short for Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity ( English : Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity '). It consists of the three main departments of space science , space technology and fluid mechanics .

Today the ZARM has established itself internationally as a research center with interdisciplinary expertise in astrophysics , space technology and fluid mechanics. At ZARM, technologies for use in rockets and satellites are developed and experiments are carried out under weightlessness. It acts as a cooperation partner in scientific space missions , in research projects in the fields of fluid mechanics and theoretical physics as well as in the development of future propulsion systems for space vehicles . More than 100 scientists, engineers, technical and administrative staff as well as a large number of students of engineering and natural sciences work at ZARM.

The 146 m high drop tower in Bremen is the ZARM's test stand that is best visible from the outside and has been shaping the silhouette of the University of Bremen for over 25 years, clearly visible from the A 27 that runs past the campus .

Research institutions of ZARM

  • Technologiepark Bremen , middle: ZARM institute building and drop tower , behind: central area of ​​the University of Bremen

  • ZARM institute building and drop tower, to the right: ZARM centrifuge

  • ZARM institute building and fall tower - corner of Hochschulring  / Am Fallturm

  • Main entrance to the ZARM institute building and the drop tower

  • ZARM centrifuge on the Hochschulring (between the BIBA and ZARM institute buildings)

  • ZARM centrifuge (seen from the ZARM institute building)

literature

  • Peter Kuckuk , Hartmut Pophanken, Klaus Schalipp (eds.): A century of air and space travel in Bremen. From the earliest attempts to fly to the Airbus and the Ariane . Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95494-071-4 , pp. 440-442 .

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