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Fly your experiment to the Space Station with Bioreactor Express Service by Staff Writers Paris (ESA) Sep 27, 2019
ESA is partnering with Kayser Italia to offer the Kubik facility on the International Space Station to commercial customers. The new Bioreactor Express Service allows users to conduct experiments in weightlessness. Customers can use existing experiment containers, customise them, or develop an entirely new container to match their requirements. The starting price is euro 160 000 and covers the flight using an existing experiment container - from conception to launch and returning scientific data within a year. Kubik has been running experiments for ESA's SciSpace programme since 2004 in the European Columbus module that is part of the International Space Station. The miniature laboratory offers room for 24 experiment containers and is equipped with features such as temperature control and a centrifuge that simulates a range of gravity levels by spinning the containers. These features allow for comparison between different environments, for example how samples of bacteria, human cells or plant seeds react to gravity levels on Earth, the Moon and Mars. David Zolesi from Kayser Italia says "with Bioreactor Express Service, we want to make Kubik accessible to everyone, providing an end-to-end service from concept to implementation, for a reasonable price and within an acceptable time-frame." Bioreactor Express Service was developed within ESA's commercial partnership initiative for European industry to propose joint development of new commercial services and applications using the unique conditions that space provides.
First Contract: BioAsteroid Two bio-mining reactors will allow researchers to see how the microbes develop a biofilm on the surface of a rock sample. Biofilms are collections of microbes that grow on a surface, a form of biofilms are dental plaques. The experiment is scheduled to fly in October next year.
ISS hosts 9 people for first time since 2015 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 26, 2019 Russia's Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, bringing the next crew - including the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - to the orbital outpost, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The approach and docking of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft, launched aboard a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket earlier in the day, took place in an autonomous regime. After the crew of the Russian Soyuz M ... read more
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