Nanoracks

NanoRacks operates the only commercial laboratory in outer space.

Created: 2018-11-01

Updated: 2021-08-22

Company - Nanoracks

Founded
Country: 2009; USA

Website: Nanoracks

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Service - NanoLab, Bishop

Classification: Microgravity & ISS Flight Service

Category: ISS Utilization Service
Commercial ISS Airlock
Commercial Space Station

Status: 1) Active

First launch: ?

Core payload hardware is the NanoLab, a powerful box in the CubeSat form factor, measuring 10 cm by 10 cm by 10 cm. Every NanoLab has a circuit board that activates the experiment, turns it off and can be functioned for other activities. Customers have also deployed video cameras and a wide range of sensors inside NanoLabs.
Nanoracks Airlock Module (Bishop) is the first-ever commercial Airlock that will operate on the International Space Station.
"Maritime Launch Services and Houston-based Nanoracks have signed an agreement to work on repurposing the upper stages of MLS's rockets — the parts of the vehicle that contained fuel and are released as it climbs into orbit. The company plans to use Cyclone 4M rockets, designed by Ukrainian company Yuzhnoye and manufactured by Yuzhmash.

Maritime Launch Services and Houston-based Nanoracks have signed an agreement to work on repurposing the upper stages of MLS's rockets — the parts of the vehicle that contained fuel and are released as it climbs into orbit. The company plans to use Cyclone 4M rockets, designed by Ukrainian company Yuzhnoye and manufactured by Yuzhmash.

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[1] http://nanoracks.com/

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mla-nanoracks-repurpose-cyclone-4-rockets-1.5344086

[3] https://images.nasa.gov/details-iss064m260691404_Expedition_64_Nanoracks_210310

News, Research, Projects and Patents

Title	Type	Date	Summary
LEO Commercialization Study	Study	2019-07-25	Outpost: An In-Orbit Commercial Space Station Habitat Development Enabling Cost-Effective and Sustainable U.S. Presence in Low-Earth Orbit
Space-Grown Crops for Earth’s Farms	Article	2020-11-12	A new commercial space market is poised to take off. And surprisingly, this market could not be more down-to-Earth: that of “farming” in space. This AgTech market will be an important part of helping decrease the debilitating impact of climate migration, which is already tearing up families and economies in Latin America, and one of the root causes of migration on our Southern border.
The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations	News	2020-11-11	The Nanoracks program, known as [Outpost](https://nanoracks.com/outpost/), will modify rockets after they’re done with their mission to give them a second life. The first Outposts will be uncrewed stations made from the upper stages of new rockets, but Manber says it’s possible that future stations could host people or be built from rocket stages already in orbit. In the beginning, Nanoracks won’t use the interior of the rocket and will mount experiment payloads, power supply modules, and small propulsion units to the outside of the fuselage. Once company engineers have that figured out, they can focus on developing the inside of the rocket as a pressurized laboratory.
The first commercial airlock is heading to the International Space Station later this year	News	2020-09-15
Abu Dhabi’s AgTech Ecosystem Expands Across Land, Sea and Space	Project, News	2020-11-10	Three innovative agriculture companies will develop cutting-edge projects in Abu Dhabi to boost the emirate’s agriculture technology (AgTech) capabilities across land, sea and space. The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced today individual partnerships with Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest), FreshToHome and Nanoracks that will see the companies receive financial and non-financial incentives totalling AED 152 million (USD 41 million). The research and technologies developed by these companies will expand existing capabilities in Abu Dhabi’s AgTech ecosystem and promote innovation in the sector to address global food security challenges.
Q & A: Nanoracks StarLab Space Farming Center	Article	2020-11-10	Below, please enjoy our Q&A with Nanoracks’ Marketing Director, Abby Dickes, and Nanoracks’ CEO, Jeffrey Manber, to learn more about Nanoracks goals in our AgTech ventures.
Nanoracks Announces In-Space Outpost Demonstration	News	2019-10-22	Nanoracks will be building a self-contained hosted payload platform that will demonstrate the robotic cutting of second stage representative tank material on-orbit. Never before has structural metal cutting been done in-space.