Belgian User Support and Operations Centre | 2017-2018

B.USOC operation room
Hunting elves, sprites, blue jets, and gamma ray flashes from the ISS
ASIM will give insight into the luminous phenomena that take place over violent thunderstorms (elves, sprites, blue jets and terrestrial gamma ray bursts). Since then B.USOC is operating continuously ASIM and transfers its data to the scientists.
Columbus lab on ISS
Nine years of Sun tracking on board the ISS
B.USOC switched off the external platform SOLAR on board the International Space Station after nine years of successful operations.
ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst
Studying shaken granular samples in microgravity
To improve the understanding of the granular dynamics the Soft Matter Dynamics Experiment Container was instaled inside the Fluid Science Laboratory on board the International Space Station.