NanoRacks

NanoRacks operates the only commercial laboratory in outer space.

Created: 2018-11-01

Updated: 2020-02-20

Company - NanoRacks

Founded
Country: 2009; USA

Website: NanoRacks

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Service - NanoLab

Category: ISS Utilization Service
Commercial ISS Airlock
Commercial Space Station

Status: 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.

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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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
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.