January 30, 2024 – Cape Canaveral, Florida – The experiment Immune Cell Activation (ICA) has been successfully launched on board Cygnus NG-20 by means of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, towards the International Space Station (ISS). ICA is the second Bioreactor Express payload. The experiment is conducted by an entirely Italian consortium composed of the Cericol…
From Expedition 64 of International Space Station, Flight Engineer Kate Rubins joins TWiV to discuss experiments that she is working on, including cell cultures, genome sequencing, and plant growth.
December 6, 2020 – Cape Canaveral, Florida – Bioasteroid, the first Bioreactor Express payload, has been successfully launched on the CRS-21 from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 11:17 AM ET and it is now on its way to the ISS.
Biomining is the extraction of useful elements from rocks performed by microorganisms and is the subject studied by the BioAsteroid experiment.