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BioServe offers affordable, flight proven hardware and research experience and mission integration and operation expertise that has been developed and tested over the past 20 years virtually guaranteeing experiment success.

BioServe Space Flight Services and Hardware

BioServe is a “One Stop Shop,” providing space flight hardware and mission integration and operation services for over 20 years.  BioServe has partnered with over 100 different companies and organizations to conduct ground and space-based research and engineering activities.  The Center has supported hundreds of individual ground- and space-based life science investigations.  Our hardware has supported a wide variety of space life sciences including molecular processes, cell and tissue culture and the development and adaptation of various plants and organisms to microgravity.  Our core competency is enabling the conduct of space life sciences research in a highly regulated environment in such a way as to make the complicated process completely transparent to the investigator.  BioServe has designed, built and flown over 50 different payloads on over 35 space flight missions including shuttle, ISS, MIR, Soyuz, and Progress.  Select pieces of BioServe flight certified hardware can provide temperature control, real-time monitoring via imagery and data streaming, automated activation, termination and sampling. 

 

For a full description of BioServe’s integration and operation services click here.

Click a name below to view information on currently available BioServe space flight certified hardware.

o       Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA)

o       Life sciences

o       Physical science

o       Fluid Processing Apparatus (FPA)

o       Microorganisms

o       Small invertebrates

o       Small plants/seed germination

o       Mammalian cells and tissues

o       Viruses

o       Protein crystal growth

o       Biomaterials

o       Group Activation Pack (GAP)

o       Cell and tissue culture

o       Microbiology

o       Small model organisms

o       BioServe Culture Apparatus (BCA)

o       Cell and tissue culture

o       Microbiology

o       Small model organisms

o       Culture Habitat (CHAB)

o       Cell and tissue culture

o       Microbiology

o       Small and model organisms

o       CGBA Science Insert (CSI)

o       Cell culture

o       Micro/small organisms

o       Chemical studies

o       Plant development

o       K-12 educational experiments

o       Still and video imaging capability

o       Cell culture

o       Microbiology

o       Small organisms

o       Chemical studies

o       Plant development

o       K-12 educational experiments

For a summary of BioServe’s previous space flight missions click here.

For descriptions of other BioServe developed space flight hardware click here.**

**Please note:  Not all BioServe space flight hardware outlined in this section is currently available for use.  Please contact the Center if you would like to discuss or use one of these pieces of equipment.

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