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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 [...]

ASGSB Signs With NanoRacks

We are pleased to announce that the American Society of Gravitational and Space Biology has signed with NanoRacks to launch a sophisticated student payload. The selected payload will study insect flight behavior in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station. See the ASGSB release below or download the pdf. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR GRAVITATIONAL AND [...]

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, [...]

NanoRacks Opens Customer Operations Center

(Houston, Texas) NanoRacks, an industry leader in low-earth orbit space services, announces today the opening of its “Customer Operations Center” for their commercial customers’ payloads utilizing NASA’s U.S. National Lab on the International Space Station. “This move consolidates services for our customers that previously have been taking place with external partners,” explains Center manager Rob [...]

Launch of National Lab

By Jeffrey Manber – The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) is ready to open its doors in running the U.S. National Lab on space station. The idea of a non-profit running the operations on the U.S. side of the station and as a national lab is a wonderful step forward–and we [...]

Creating an EcoSystem

By Jeffrey Manber – We have been working around the clock to not only create proposals for NASA’s SBIR 2011, but to answer questions and work with other companies that are submitting proposals based on NanoRacks’ facilities and standards. It’s been a strange experience. Multiple times over the past couple of weeks, Mike Johnson and [...]

Progress Cargo Ship Failure

By Jeffrey Manber – The russian cargo ship Progress 44 p which launched today with more than 2 tons of cargo for the space station seems to have suffered a catastrophic failure. The six person crew onboard the station is unaffected. There are also ample supplies. We are confident the Russian authorities will quickly pinpoint [...]