A public catalog for aerospace companies and small businesses. Search facilities, instruments, equipment, data, software, expertise, partnerships, and intellectual property held by Colorado organizations. Names and descriptions are copied from official pages.
541 assets from 19 organizations
21 of 541 assets
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Atmosphere Control Module (ACM), a SABL insert that holds the experiment volume at 5% CO2 for mammalian cell culture; freshly filled units fly on a rotating basis.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Animal Enclosure Module - ECLSS (AEM-E), a middeck locker-sized insert for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft that transports up to 40 mice or 12 rats to the ISS for rodent research.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioCell, a family of BioServe cell culture hardware analogous to culture flasks or multi-well plates for laboratory-fidelity cell culture on ISS, supporting seedings, fluid injections, media exchanges, passaging, fixation and preservation…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Data & Digital Tools
BioServe flight history: hundreds of science payloads designed, built and operated on over 110 spaceflight missions across eight spacecraft types (Shuttle, Progress, Soyuz, HTV, Dragon, Cygnus, Orion and New Shepard).
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Microscopy Platform (BSMP): hardware for astronauts to capture high-definition microscopy images and videos on the ISS for downlink, built around an inverted brightfield and phase-contrast microscope; objective lenses are already…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Capabilities & Access
BioServe payload and mission support: working with NASA, academic, industry and international researchers to develop NASA-approved experiments, flight hardware and operations; researchers should contact BioServe before submitting a…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Capabilities & Access
BioServe Space Technologies, a CU Boulder center for microgravity life science research and for designing and developing spaceflight hardware, with a full suite of flight-certified hardware for customers and partners.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Centrifuge for ISS research in the life, physical and material sciences, based on the Eppendorf MiniSpin with 800 to 13,400 rpm at better than 3% accuracy, for cell separation, microfiltration and pelleting.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA), a dual-function incubator/freezer operating between -16 °C and 37 °C that has supported experiments on ISS, Mir, the Space Shuttle and Dragon; 27 L experiment volume in refrigerator mode.…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Fluid Processing Apparatus (FPA), an enclosed test tube for controlled, sequential mixing of two to four fluids (6.5 mL total) in microgravity within NASA containment standards, grouped in GAP units; flown since STS-50 in 1992.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Freezer / Refrigerator / Incubator Device for Galley and Experimentation (FRIDGE), a middeck locker-sized unit using thermoelectric elements from -20.0 °C to +48.0 °C for crew galley items and research onboard the ISS.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Payload Operation and Control Center (POCC), an on-site, dedicated 24/7 remote operations center through which BioServe personnel operate all BioServe ISS payloads.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (PGBA), a BioServe plant growth chamber for plant physiology in microgravity that flew on three Space Shuttle missions (STS-77, STS-83 and STS-94) from 1996 and operated on the ISS briefly in 2002.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Plate Habitat (PHAB) providing secondary biological containment for BioCells and similar third-party hardware such as OmniTrays, configurable with vents, seals and pressure relief for gas exchange, e.g. in a 5% CO2 environment.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,660,698 B1 for phytometric intelligence sensors that determine when plants need watering from real-time leaf measurements and signal the grower; assignees University of Colorado Boulder and AgriHouse.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 5,947,334 for a post-mix beverage system for space that mixes and optionally carbonates and dispenses beverages in microgravity from chilled syrup, water and CO2 sources; assignee Coca-Cola; inventors include Hoehn and Stodieck.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
The Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL) is a dual-function incubator/freezer on the ISS that keeps biological samples and other experiment materials between -5°C and +43°C. It offers over 23 liters of temperature-controlled, LED-lit…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Space Automated Lab Incubator (SALI), a single middeck locker-sized unit using thermoelectric elements to heat and cool its chamber from -20.0 °C to +48.0 °C for research onboard the ISS; EXPRESS-rack compatible.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Syringe Pump for Organs-on-Chips (SPOC), designed for the NIH Chips in Space initiative, holding six Nortis Triplex MPS chips per unit with local heating to 37.0 °C; SABL takes up to two SPOC units plus an ACM.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Tissue Preservation Kit (TPK), a family of hardware for returning preserved rodent tissue samples from NASA's Rodent Research missions.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Variable Gravity Machine (VGM), a SABL insert for variable-gravity experiments up to 7.1G in microgravity aboard the ISS, covering Moon, Mars and 1G levels for on-orbit comparisons.