Catapult Drop Tower in Bremen
Date: 16 December 2004
Copyright: ZARM
Video showing the Catapult Drop Tower in action.
The unique facility is located at the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation - ZARM) in Bremen.
A capsule is dropped inside the drop tower and experiences a free fall of 110 m for 4.74 seconds. The 2-metre long capsule is caught in a 10 m deep container filled with polystyrene balls.
Last Update: 1 September 2019