Bioreactor Express (Kayser Italia)

Kayser Space is a partner in BioReactor Express providing commercial access for payloads to the Columbus module on the ISS and exclusive access to the KUBIK incubator facility - aimed primarily for biological experiments but also available for e.g. manufacturing processes requiring precise temperature control.

Created: 2019-11-16

Updated: 2023-08-13

Company - Bioreactor Express (Kayser Italia)

Founded
Country: 1986; Italy,UK

Funding: Yes, ?

Website: http://www.bioreactorexpress.space/

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Product/Service - Bioreactor Express

Classification: Miscellaneous

Category: Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Research Payloads
ISS Utilization Service

Fields: Medicine and Drugs
Biotech
Pharmaceutical

Status: Active

First launch: 2020

Partners: ESA

It exploits the KUBIK incubator facility of the European Space Agency (ESA) which is permanently installed on the Columbus module of the ISS. With this approach several categories of experiments can be performed using available miniaturized “bioreactors” dedicated to biological, biotechnological and biochemistry experiments.

ESA is partnering with Kayser Italia to offer the Kubik facility on the International Space Station to commercial customers.

Status Comment / Notes

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. The experiment, conceived by Prof. Charles Cockell of the University of Edinburgh, investigates how gravity affects the interaction between microbes and rock in a liquid medium. This first payload demonstrated the fast-track access to microgravity allowed by the Bioreactor Express service (contract to launch within one year).

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News, Research, Projects and Patents

Title	Type	Date	Summary
First Bioreactor Express payload launched!	News	2020-12-06
Kayser Space working on microgravity studies with University of Liverpool and Imperial College London	News	2020-10-22	> Kayser Space has been appointed as the industrial payload development partner for two studies, led by the University of Liverpool and Imperial College London, that are funded in the frame of the recent call of the UK Space Agency for Feasibility Studies for UK National Microgravity Experiments.

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