Astrium North America collection of Press Releases and News Stories
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NanoRacks External Platform Completes First Interim Design Review |
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| (Apr 2012) The first platform to be mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) for the commercial testing of research payloads, sensors and electronic components in space. NanoRacks and Astrium NA plan to complete manufacture of two versions of the platform in 2013 and begin testing outside the ISS in 2014. |  |
| (Apr 2012) NanoRacks, Astrium NA Working on External Space Station Platform. NanoRacks and Astrium North America plan to build the first commercial platform designed to be mounted on the exterior of the international space station to allow customers to test research payloads, sensors and electronic components in space. |  |
| (Apr 2012) CASIS and NanoRacks Close Deal to Use Commercial Research Platform in the Extremes of Space. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization managing the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, today announced a deal with NanoRacks, LLC, to reserve space on the first commercial platform available for researchers outside the ISS in the extreme environments of space. In June, CASIS will issue a formal solicitation to the research community and private enterprise for their proposals to use this one-of-a-kind platform for anything from earth observation to materials, and biological sciences. |  |
| (Apr 2012) Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at Space Station. Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of International Space Station (ISS). NanoRacks selected Astrium North America as a team member in the development of the EPP facility. The program capitalizes on the history and strengths of the two companies in providing external payload platforms, operating commercial facilities, and using off-the-shelf hardware, standard interfaces and existing space station data and power systems. |  |
| (Feb 2012) 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. Astrium Space Transportation handed over the research centrifuge to NanoRacks LL, during a ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 14 in Houston. Astrium North America adapted the centrifuge -- originally built for use on space shuttle missions -- for use in the station's NanoRacks Platform-3. The commercial research team funded the centrifuge. | |
