Created: 2023-01-10
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Frontier Space Technologies
Product/Service - SpaceLAB
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- ISS Utilization Service
Microgravity Research Payloads
Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
- Fields
- Automated Microgravity Laboratory
- Status
- Demonstrated
- First launch
- Not announced
SpaceLab
- Autonomous Operation: SpaceLab operates seamlessly with rapidly customisable features.
- Multiple Chamber Sample Disc (MCSD): Analyse multiple samples at once with precision.
- Fluidic Channels: Pump a variety of fluids to samples for life support and experimentation.
- Platform Agnostic: SpaceLab is designed to adapt! By making slight adjustments to the 1U bus interface, it can soar on different launch vehicles and platforms, catering to diverse markets.
BAMMsat on BEXUS
- Enabling biological, pharmaceutical, and materials science research in space environments on a miniaturised, autonomous orbital laboratory platform.
- Space flight is hard and expensive, and every gram of mass counts when minimising launch costs. BAMMsat is designed to be compatible with a 3U CubeSat format, enabling use on low-cost rideshare missions to orbit.
- BAMMsat is the first CubeSat design to incorporate multicellular organisms. Nematode worms (C. Elegans) will be flown in the sample chambers, where experiments will be performing using multiple different reagents.
Frontier Flies its Lab-in-a-Box on ATMOS’ Reentry Mission, 2025-04-23.
- A miniature bioreactor from UK-based Frontier Space.
- First mission is designed to test key components of its lab-in-a-box bioreactor, including its microfluidics chip and its onboard optical imaging system.
- The mission will also evaluate Frontier’s ability to transport and store microorganisms in microgravity.
- The long-term vision is to give astronauts the ability to manufacture the food and medicine they’ll need
Drag Sails
FYT! LEOniDAS
Reducing de-orbit time using drag sails for small satellites, enabling responsible space use while also extending end-of-life mission possibilities.
Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off, 2025-04-22.
- A European Space Agency (ESA) project is assessing the viability of growing so-called lab-grown food in the low gravity and higher radiation in orbit and on other worlds.
- ESA is funding the research to explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut, which can cost up to £20,000 per day.
- Lab-grown food involves growing food ingredients, such as protein, fat and carbohydrates in test tubes and vats and then processing them to make them look and taste like normal food.
- "We could start off simply with protein-enhanced mashed potatoes on to more complex foods which we could put together in space," he tells me.
- "But in the longer term we could put the lab-grown ingredients into a 3D printer and print off whatever you want on the space station, such as a steak!"
- He showed me a set-up, called a bioreactor, at Imperial College's Bezos Centre for Sustainable Proteins in west London. It comprised a brick-coloured concoction bubbling away in a test tube. The process is known as precision fermentation, which is like the fermentation used to make beer, but different: "precision" is a rebranding word for genetically engineered.
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