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ISS Commercial Research Providers
Facility/Company Description
Additive Manufacturing Facility The Additive Manufacturing Facility provides hardware manufacturing
(2015)/Made In Space services to NASA and U.S. National Laboratory, and was the first
commercially available manufacturing service in space. It also provides
research opportunities for terrestrial and space-based three-
dimensional printing applications.
Bone Densiometer (2014)/ The Bone Densitometer (BD) provides a bone density scanning
TechShot capability on the ISS for utilization by NASA and the ISS U.S. National
Laboratory. The BD payload measures bone density using Dual-Energy
X-ray Absorptiometry.
Commercial Generic The Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) provides
BioProcessing Apparatus (2001)/ programmable, accurate temperature control for applications ranging
BioServe Space Technologies from cold stowage to customizable incubation. The CGBA is used for
experiments on cells, microbes and plants.
DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Attached to the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES)
Spectrometer (2018)/Teledyne platform, which provides power, data-flow and inertial pointing
Brown Engineering stabilization for up to four instruments, DLR Earth Sensing Imaging
Spectrometer (DESIS) is a hyperspectral sensor system with the
capability of recording image data using 235 closely arranged channels
ranging from the visual to the infrared spectrum (between 400 and
1000 nanometers) with a spatial resolution of 30 meters (98 feet) while
in ISS orbit, at an altitude of 400 kilometers (249 miles).
ICECUBES (2018)/Ice Cubes Offers room to run experiments and conduct research in weightlessness
Service inside the European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory on the
ISS. It will allow experiments to run for more than 4 months in space.
Astronaut time and expert advice come as part of the package.
Made In Space Fiber Optics Made In Space Fiber Optics is a miniature fiber-pulling machine that
(2017)/Made In Space harnesses the microgravity environment to produce optical fiber with
fewer defects than those that can be produced on Earth. The fiber optic
material chosen for this demonstration is ZBLAN. Research indicates
this material has the potential for better optical qualities than the silica
used in most fiber optic cable.
Materials International Space Materials International Space Station Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-
Station Experiment Flight Facility FF) is a material research facility externally housed on the ISS that offers
(2018)/Alpha Space testing for atomic oxygen, radiation exposure, vacuum testing, zero
gravity and extreme temperatures. The primary MISSE-FF platform
provides the ability to test materials, coatings, and components or other
larger experiments in the harsh environment of space, which is virtually
impossible to do collectively on Earth.
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