MASER is a medium sized sounding rocket program organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) reaching an orbital hight of approximately 260 km and a total of 6 minutes of microgravity. MASER-12 took place on the European Space Range (Esrange Space Center) in Northern Sweden and was launched on 13th of February 2012 at 9.32 UTC.

On board of MASER-12 we investigated together with the group of Augusto Cogoli (Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari) the influence of altered gravity on key proteins of T cell activation employing our BIM-2 module. BIM-2 consists of…

To learn about the results found during MASER-12, please have a look at this publication: http://www.biosignaling.com/content/11/1/32