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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, which [...]

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 NanoRacks [...]

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 SPACE [...]

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, KACST [...]

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 his [...]

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 this, [...]

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 [...]

Recognition!

By Jeffrey Manber – NanoRacks thanks the folks over at the Space Frontier Foundation for awarding their 2011 “Vision to Reality” award to us. As Jim Muncy explained, this award is not for space companies that are solely business plans or viewgraphs but for those that have accomplished real world space operations with a proven [...]