ESA's Maxus 4 sub-orbital microgravity mission was launched on 29 April form ESRANGE, near Kiruna in Northern Sweden.. During the last two years, scientists form five European countries have been working together with the engineering teams form Astrium GmbH and the Swedish Space Corporation in preparation for the Maxus 4 mission of the European Space Agency. The Maxus 4 rocket carried a payload of seven experiments stacked in five self-contained modules. They were designed to investigate phenomena in fluid physics and materials science that are difficult or impossible to observe on Earth.
The Maxus 4 flight was designed to provide weightlessness to the experiments for the duration or about 12.5 minutes. On its flight, the payload was planned to reach an apogee of 710km. On the down-leg, at an altitude of 6km the main parachute would be deployed to ensure the safe landing of the Maxus 4 payload at a distance of about 80 km down-range. I was to be brought back by helicopter, normally within one hour af

00:00:30 ITW Mr Franke, Astrium's Maxus Project Manager (German)
00:11:44 ITW Per Baldmar, Head of ESRANGE launch team (English), with upper stage adapter
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