CASIS and NanoRacks Announce Expanded ISS Research Capabilities

CASIS and NanoRacks Close Deal to Use Commercial Research Platform in the Extremes of Space. Call for Proposals to Use Exterior NanoLabs will be Released in June 2012 See the release below, download the pdf, see the story on NASA’s web site or view an animated demonstration of NanoRacks in action outside the station. . [...]

Virgin Galactic Selects NanoRacks to Conduct Suborbital Research

MOJAVE, Calif. – (Feb. 27, 2012) Virgin Galactic LLC, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced today that it has selected NanoRacks LLC to construct a rack system to allow research payloads to fly to space aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2). With these new racks, SS2 will allow researchers to conduct experiments during several minutes of [...]

NASA to Deliver Commercial Research Equipment to Station

HOUSTON – NASA, Astrium Space Transportation and NanoRacks LLC are teaming up to expand the research capability of the International Space Station through delivery of a small commercial centrifuge facility that will conduct molecular and cellular investigations on plant and animal tissue. The centrifuge enhances NanoRacks’ existing suite of lab equipment aboard the space station, [...]

Commercial Centrifuge Facility for the ISS

Commercial Hardware Ready for U.S. National Lab on NASA’s International Space Station (Houston, Texas) Astrium North America is proud to announce that Astrium Space Transportation and NanoRacks LLC have teamed up to offer a cost‐effective, commercial centrifuge facility for the International Space Station. Astrium Space Transportation is handing over on the 14th of February to [...]