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…
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…
Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Cape Canaveral, Florida 15th March 2025. The IRIS (Large area, wearable Ionizing Radiation dosimeters for real-tIme crew perSonal monitoring) payload developed for the Italian Space Agency (ASI), was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 15, 00:03 Italian time (23:03 GMT on March 14) from the Kennedy Space Center…
Euro Material Ageing (EMA), an experiment developed by CNES composed of the combination of equipment SESAME and IR-COASTER has been launched on November 5th 2024 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS) with the SpaceX-31 Falcon 9 rocket into Cargo Dragon CRS. SESAME studies in-flight ageing of new…
Photo credit Kayser Italia.
ICU proto flight model during TVAC test. All unit interface connectors are mated to the TVAC chamber field through in order to operate ICU in Vacuum conditions.