Stardust Bexus Project

in 2015, members of the students scientific association “simle” came up with the idea of launching stratospheric balloon missions. after first successful mission, “simle” fellows invited young researchers of students' society of biotechnology to cooperate on the microbiological mission. “stardust” is an interdisciplinary project of gdańsk university of technology students, aim of which is to send experiments in high-altitude balloons within rexus/bexus and global space balloon challenge contests. the experiments will be continued in laboratories of department of molecular biotechnology and microbiology since further phases require specific work conditions. the aim of the experiments is to explore diversity, as well as properties of bacterial microflora in the stratosphere. scientific literature suggests that bacteria with high resistance to large amounts of uv and ionising radiation are possible to be found in the stratosphere. moreover, we do not take out of equation that these bacter