The ScienceTaxi is a first-of-its-kind life science incubator facility with temperature management, full automation, and real-time knowledge assortment.
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® Spaceplane to Bring Yuri’s Life Science Incubator to International Space Station for Microgravity Research
MECKENBEUREN AND LOUISVILLE, GERMANY AND COLORADO, September 2, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Sierra Space, a number one industrial area firm on the forefront of making and constructing the way forward for area transportation and infrastructure for low-Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization, and Yuri, a Germany-based area biotech firm, introduced at present a brand new settlement to additional medical analysis in microgravity for the advantage of life on Earth. The association contains plans to launch Yuri’s ScienceTaxi on board Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane starting in 2024, on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the place the incubator might be used for a wide range of life sciences experiments.
The ScienceTaxi is a first-of-its-kind life science incubator facility with temperature management, full automation, and real-time knowledge assortment. Hosting up to 38 experiment models – or ScienceShells – the built-in ScienceTaxi centrifuge permits for experiments to be performed with Earth gravity, in addition to moon or Mars gravity as a reference.
Dream Chaser, the primary winged, industrial spaceplane, which is designed and constructed by Sierra Space, will transport Yuri’s ScienceTaxi to the ISS in accordance to the newly-signed Commercial Payload Services Agreement (CPSA). The two corporations are additionally exploring future LEO locations the place Sierra Space’s Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE™) habitat may present greater than 300 cubic meters of on-orbit analysis area.
“Our agreement with Yuri is another step forward for Sierra Space and our mission to open affordable access to space for all around the world,” mentioned Neeraj Gupta, Sierra Space SVP & GM Space Destinations. “We aim to commercialize space to benefit life on Earth, and the launch of ScienceTaxi with Yuri embodies our collective drive and innovative spirit. Controlled microgravity research is now possible on any orbital or sub-orbital platform thanks to our agreement with Yuri and its ScienceTaxi and ScienceShells.”
“This development is a huge milestone that will give the scientific community access to world-class bio research beyond the ISS,” mentioned Mark Kugel, Co-CEO of Yuri GmbH. “Scientists around the globe can safe their analysis slots on ScienceTaxi with a wide range of completely different experiments doable, resembling cell, vegetation, and crystal experiments. Yuri GmbH is wanting ahead to this long-term strategic partnership with Sierra Space and is happy in regards to the future through which the Yuri ScienceTaxi might be working on a number of industrial platforms in LEO and past.”
In September 2021, Sierra Space and Yuri introduced their intent to discover daring and visionary industrial alternatives for microgravity analysis that might assist create medical breakthroughs through the use of the advantages of zero gravity in area.
The first mission for Yuri’s ScienceTaxi is scheduled to launch in 2024 aboard an ISS visiting automobile, with payload integration providers being offered by Sierra Space.
About Sierra Space
Sierra Space (www.sierraspace.com) is a number one industrial area firm on the forefront of innovation and the commercialization of area. With greater than 30 years and 500 missions of area flight heritage, Sierra Space is enabling the way forward for area transportation with Dream Chaser®, the world’s solely winged industrial spaceplane. Under development at its Colorado headquarters and anticipated to launch in 2023 on the primary of a collection of NASA missions to the International Space Station, Dream Chaser® can safely carry cargo – and finally crew – to on-orbit locations, returning to land on suitable industrial airport runways worldwide. Sierra Space can be constructing an array of in-space locations for low Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization together with the LIFE™ (Large Flexible Integrated Environment) habitat on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a three-story industrial habitation and science platform designed for LEO. Both Dream Chaser® and LIFE™ are central elements to Orbital Reef, a mixed-use business park in LEO being developed by principal companions Sierra Space and Blue Origin, which is predicted to be operational by 2027.
About Yuri
Headquartered in Meckenbeuren, Germany, Yuri GmbH (www.yurigravity.com) is an area biotech firm that makes life science analysis in microgravity simpler and extra reasonably priced. With expertise from 19 ISS payloads for NASA, ESA, DLR and the likes, the workforce of 30+ area engineers and biologists helps researchers around the globe. Besides launching experiments to the ISS, Yuri develops Random Positioning Machines (RPM, previously Airbus) and Clinostats for buy and rental. They additionally began creating their very own line of biotech merchandise fashioned in microgravity.
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