Aphrodite on space!

Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Cape Canaveral, Florida 13th February 2026. On Friday, 13, at 5:15 a.m. EST, Space X  SpaceX Crew-12 mission has been successfully lunched uploading on the International Space Station APHRODITE experiment. APHRODITE (Autonomous PHotosensing Reusable Onboard Device for Immunological Tests Execution) is a compact biosensor, based on lab-on-chip technology, designed to monitor astronaut…

OCS Launched and Installed into EML !

Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Cape Canaveral, September 14th 2025. OCS has been launched on board NG-23 and transported inside ISS and successfully installed on MSL-EML on October 6th, 2025. OCS commissioning will be scheduled soon by ESA/NASA. The Material Science Laboratory Electromagnetic Levitator (MSL-EML) is a multi-user facility, hosted in the European Space Ageny EDR…

HTH2 facility launched !

Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Cape Canaveral, September 14th, 2025. The Heat Transfer Host 2 (HTH2) Facility has been launched on-board NG-23, and it is on the way to the ISS! The commissioning for the first experiment MoF (Marangoni in Films) is scheduled for the last week of September. The execution in HTH2 of other two…

Welcome back HAMVIDEO!

July, 2025. After 15 years from its first In-orbit Commissioning and following a recent ground refurbishment for improving its performance, the video-audio transmitter HAMVIDEO is now operative again on board the International Space Station. HAMVIDEO, developed by Kayser Italia in collaboration with the radio-amateur community Amsat Italia and ARISS, has been launched with the SpaceX…

The BIOFILMS experiment on the ISS again!

Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Cape Canaveral, Florida 21st April 2025. On Monday, April 21 at 4:15 a.m. ET, the BIOFILMS experiment was uploaded for the fourth time to the International Space Station by the Space-X Dragon 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-32). Once on the ISS, the bioreactors (hosting the biological samples) developed by Kayser Italia, will be…