Students from the COSMO scientific association of the Kraków University of Technology (PK) conducted the launch of the HABSat stratospheric probe. This is the second successful flight of the HABSat probe. Last year, a test of the structure took place, and now a team from the COSMO scientific association of PK has sent a cosmic ray detector into the stratosphere, with the task of investigating the intensity of cosmic rays at different flight altitudes, as well as checking the attenuation of this radiation by the atmosphere.

The detector was developed by the supervisor of the COSMO PK club, Katarzyna Smelcerz, as part of her research for her doctoral dissertation ‘Development of a cosmic ray detection system based on an array of distributed scintillation detectors’.

HABSat (High Altitude Balloon Satellite) is a measurement device that is used to carry out experiments in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 30 km above the ground. It provides an experimental platform for safely sending research projects that require space-like conditions into the stratosphere.