NanoRacks and KACST Announce Educational Space Station Program

NanoRacks and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia have announced a multi-year program that provides Saudi students with an attractive pathway to implement projects using NanoRacks’ facilities on the U.S. National Lab on the International Space Station. At the signing ceremony in Riyhadi, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, [...]

NASA 2011 SBIR Supports NanoRacks System

NASA’s 2011 SBIR and STTR Program Announcements have come out and for the second year NASA continues to seek to build up the NanoRacks’ standardization of payloads for the U.S. National Lab. In several areas, both Ames Research Center and Johnson Space Center and HQ have indicated their interest in receiving proposals that would allow [...]

DLR Hosts NanoRacks in Industry Workshop

The German Space Agency DLR hosted a full day workshop in Bonn that brought together all sectors of German industry to explore using the NanoRacks’ facilities for industry utilization of the International Space Station. The event included manufacturers, distributors, researchers, government officials and business development organizations. The overall goal was to discuss strategy for re-stimulating [...]

School ISS Research Project Documented on Video

Everyone has to check out this incredible video from our friends at Valley Christian, as both students and adult mentors show the enthusiasm, passion and expertise that has gone into this first high school research project aboard the U.S. National Laboratory on ISS. All of us at NanoRacks are really pleased to have helped bring [...]

NanoRacks and NASA Sign Biopharm Space Act Agreement

NanoRacks and NASA have signed a Space Act Agreement giving NanoRacks the rights to develop for the NanoRacks Platforms on space station Ames Research hardware intended for biopharm research.

NanoRacks Platform Activation Footage

NASA has released video footage of the first NanoRacks Platform and CubeLabs being located into ExPRESS Rack 4 in the Japanese Experiment Module ON-BOARD the International Space Station.

NASA Astronaut scheduled to plug in Platforms

With successful launch of Soyuz TMA-19 the countdown begins to operational status of NanoRacks Research Platforms. NASA astronaut Shannon Walker is scheduled to plug in Platforms at date to be determined.

Second NanoRacks Platform Launches to Space Station

NanoRacks second research platform blasted off to the ISS this week on-board Space Shuttle Atlantis, announcing the company’s commercial expansion of the International Space Station capacity for industrial and educational microgravity research. Read more about the Commercial Expansion Press Release.

Second NanoRacks Research Platform on Launch Pad

The research opportunities of the U.S. National Lab on the International Space Station are about to increase thanks to NanoRacks LLC. The company’s second research platform is slated to blast off this week on board space shuttle Atlantis. Meanwhile Platform 1 is currently in orbit on-board the ISS.

NanoRacks Interface Control Documents Published

NanoRacks have published a number of necessary technical documents for NanoLab microgravity research customers. Visit the resouces section and check out the latest NanoRacks documents to see them all.