REXUS SCRAP Experiment Team

SCRAP was a student rocket experiment part of the REXUS programme. REXUS is done in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), and the European Space Agency (ESA).

The scientific objective of SCRAP was the validation of theories on electron density fluctuations in dusty plasmas by measuring the scattering of ultra-high frequency radio waves on a cloud of metallic microparticles spread in the mesospheric plasma. The experiment was launched from Esrange in March of 2015. A video from the launch can be found here.

• Bergstrom, R., Crimella, M., Ivchenko, N., Karlsson, A., Lindberg, H., Persson, L., Schlatter, N., Tibert, G., Westerlund, S., “Scattering of Radar waves on Aerosols in Plasmas”, Proceedings of the 22nd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, June 2015
• Linnea Persson, “Microparticle Ejection and Electromagnetic Scattering in the SCRAP Experiment”, May 2014