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Space Flight Hardware BioServe payloads are designed, built, tested and managed by faculty, staff, and students at CU in collaboration with our industrial affiliates. A generic approach to designing the space-qualified hardware allows a wide variety of standard laboratory techniques to be readily adapted to function in weightlessness. At the same time, a modular infrastructure allows for customized devices to be integrated into the carrier payloads as needed to enable specific research objectives. In addition to the hardware development process, operational aspects of the space flight program include pre-flight integration and launch preparation, real-time mission support, and post-flight sample recovery, shipping and processing tasks - all of which involve close interaction between industrial and academic research scientists, engineers and students. Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) Click here to download a detailed description (5 MB, pdf) of the CGBA payload capabilities · Isothermal Containment Module (ICM) Freezer · Isothermal Containment Module (ICM) v.3 · Isothermal Containment Module (ICM) v.2 CGBA Inserts - Experiment Specific Hardware · Multiple Orbital Bioreactor with Instrumentation and Automated Sampling (MOBIAS) · BioServe Culture Apparatus (BCA) · Fluids Processing Apparatus (FPA) · Group Activation Pack (GAP) o Manual GAP o auto-GAP o Internal Motor (IM) GAP o Gas Exchange (GE) GAP · Illuminated Culture Vessel (ICV) · Insect Habitats Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (PGBA) Animal Enclosure Module (AEM) Earlier Hardware Designs · Isothermal Containment Module (ICM) v.1 · Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Incubator (GBA INC) · Gas Exchange Fermentation Apparatus (GEFA) · Cell Syringe (CS) · Bioprocessing Module (BPM) · Plant Module for Autonomous Space Support (P-MASS)

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