PLATO ICU FLIGHT MODEL DELIVERY

Kayser Italia is proud to announce the delivery of PLATO Instrument Control Unit flight model. The ICU has been shipped to the OHB Munchen (Satellite Prime integrator) after the authorization of ASI and ESA. Together with the KI designed and realized electronics box, the unit includes also the boot SW and the FPGA firmware developed…

IMMUNE CELL ACTIVATION

L’esperimento IMMUNE CELL ACTIVATION (ICA), finanziato dall’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA) nell’ambito di un programma per la commercializzazione di prodotti innovativi, è stato lanciato verso la Stazione Spaziale Internazionale (ISS) in data 30 gennaio alle 12:07 p.m. EST (17:07 GMT) dallo spazioporto Kennedy Space Center di Cape Canaveral.  L’esperimento è stato gestito dal servizio commerciale Bioreactor…

PROMETEO-2 experiment launched!

Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Cape Canaveral, Florida – 18th January 2024. The NanoProtection experiment (also known as PROMETEO-2), funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), has been successfully launched! PROMETEO-2 focuses on studying oxidative stress caused by the exposure of the human body to microgravity and cosmic radiation, conditions on Earth associated with pathologies such…

Osteogenic cells – integrazione

Lo scopo dell’esperimento OSTEOGENIC CELLS,  condotto in collaborazione con un team scientifico dell’Università di Leuven (Belgio), è di investigare il comportamento in microgravità di specifiche linee cellulari (osteoblasti e cellule primarie periosteali) per comprendere gli effetti dell’ambiente spaziale sugli organismi viventi e per prevenire problemi specifici agli astronauti durante il lungo soggiorno in ambiente di…

ARED-Kinematics launched!

ARED-Kinematics has been launched on-board SpX-28 from Cape Canaveral! June 5th, 2023 Cape Canaveral. ARED-Kinematics is a human physiology experiment supported by ASI and ESA, aimed to quantify the joint torque, muscle forces, and bone stresses that occur during exercise in microgravity, as well as to quantify adaptations in performance that may occur throughout a…