The international transport company Gebrüder Weiss is the official logistics partner for the SubOrbital Express rocket mission of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and is transporting twelve scientific experiments to Kiruna in northern Sweden for this project. The SSC will be conducting the “SubOrbital Express 3 (S1X-3M15)” mission at its Esrange Space Center near Kiruna from November 14 to 24, in which the experiments will be flown in space and their behavior in a weightless environment studied. The purpose is to gain insights relevant to research and the work of astronauts in space.

On board the rocket will be, among other experiments, the Fortis module (center), which will study 13 clocks in weightlessness. Involved in the project (from left to right): Marcel Giger (Operations Manager, Fortis), Andreas Bentele (Marketing Manager, Fortis), Stefan Krämer (Program Manager, SubOrbital Express, SSC), Jupp Philipp (Owner and Managing Director, Fortis), Oscar Löfgren (Mechanical Engineer, SSC), Christos Tolis (Systems Engineer, SSC). (Source: What The Film)

“As Swedish Space Corporation, we enable universities, research teams and start-ups to conduct research in space. Many of the experiments have direct consequences for science and thus can impact the entire world,” says Stefan Krämer, Program Manager for SubOrbital Express, Swedish Space Corporation. Logistics also has an important role to play in implementing the project: “It is essential that the equipment is delivered to the rocket range on time and, most importantly, safely. Gebrüder Weiss is a logistics partner that we can really trust,” says Krämer.

Frank Haas, Head of Corporate Brand Strategy & Communications at Gebrüder Weiss: “We support the Swedish Space Corporation with our logistics expertise and would like to contribute to the further development of space travel. Future-oriented mobility projects such as the rocket mission play an important role for Gebrüder Weiss.” Just last year, Gebrüder Weiss demonstrated its capability in logistics in Israel during the simulation of a mission by astronauts to Mars.