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Investigation Title Valuation Summaries

Radiation-Tolerant With 10 employees, and an estimated $4 million in annual revenue, Xiphos
Processors Technologies has used the ISS for development and demonstration of its Q-card
processors since 2004. From 2000-2016, the company received $666,000 in funding
from CSA for the development and commercialization of Q-cards. Two companies have
been spun-off from Xiphos Technologies. XipLink, with approximately 25 employees
and an estimated annual revenue of $4 million, specializes in the optimization of data
transmission over Wide Area Network and satellite links. GHGSat, with 40 employees,
received $2.3 million in public funding from Sustainable Development Technology
Canada. The GHGSat-D satellite, funded in part by Imperial Oil, Shell, Canadian Natural
Resources Limited, and Suncor Energy, launched in 2016. This satellite provides
information on greenhouse emissions at targeted locations for its stakeholders.
As of June 2018, emissions data had been collected for more than 3,000 sites.

Thermolab The Thermolab experiment, has produced at least seven scientific publications.
The direct line of this German Space Agency(DLR)/European Space Agency-
supported research led to the development of a noninvasive core body temperature
measurement technology—the Double Sensor. Double Sensor technology accounts
for 10 patents and has been incorporated into Tcore—a Dräger Medical product
currently used in hospitals for monitoring during surgeries and on intensive care
units. The benefit of skin-based temperature monitoring is acutely realized in these
areas, where the minute-to-minute changes in core body temperature provide critical
information—especially where traditional invasive thermometers may not be accepted
or used by care providers.
Twins Study Biotechnology company KromaTiD was initially funded via two grants, totaling
$700,000, sponsored by NASA’s Human Research Program. The grants were intended
to mature technology for analysis of lymphocytes obtained from astronauts to improve
space radiation risk analysis. As part of the validation for its chromosomal inversion
technology, the company’s chromatid painting system was used in the high-profile
NASA ISS twin study in 2015. As of 2018, KromaTiD has raised $8.35 million, been
granted three U.S. patents, published four scientific papers, and launched distribution
partnerships with Tokyo Future Style and Tebu-Bio in Japan and Europe, respectively.

Vessel Identification A partnership between the ISS and the Norwegian Defense Institute led to the
System installation of Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers on the ISS. These
receivers are capable of receiving data from vessels throughout the ocean in areas
that were previously too remote to detect. The extension of the AIS infrastructure,
which prior to implementation on the ISS was primarily ground-based and limited to
coverage within 15 miles of shore, has led to the proliferation of satellite-based AIS
receivers including those onboard the ISS. This space-based expanded coverage
facilitated rescue efforts for 24 ships sunk, foundered, grounded or otherwise lost
at least 15 nautical miles away from shore in 2017 alone. A total of 310 passengers
and crew members were rescued during these incidents.

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