Kayser Italia announces that the Portable Power Supply mkII is now ready for utilization on the ISS. The launch occurred on 4th of May 2019 on board of SpaceX CRS-17 and with the Falcon 9 rocket. PPS mkII has been developed by Kayser Italia as subcontractor of AIRBUS DS within a European Space Agency funded project.…
May, 4th 2019. Kennedy Space Center (FLA, USA) The SpaceX CRS-17 mission with the Falcon 9 Block 5 carry new scientific experiments to the International Space Station with the Dragon capsule. The mission included BioScience-3, an experiment on the spaceflight effects on vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cell processes. The investigation aims to understand the molecular mechanisms…
UPDATE April, 30th 2019 Kennedy Space Center (FLA, USA) – The next SpaceX CRS-17 mission with the Falcon 9 Block 5 launcher will carry new scientific experiments to the International Space Station with the Dragon capsule. These will include the Nano Antioxidants (NANO) experiment developed by Kayser Italia for a scientific team of Italian Institute of Technology…
17 April 2019, Wallops Island (Virginia, USA) The first two experiments for the Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano’s mission “Beyond” has been launched to the International Space Station on board the Cygnus NG-11 cargo spacecraft. One of the experiments is named “NUTRISS” and it has been developed by Kayser Italia in collaboration with the team of…
Livorno, Italy – April 2019 A Kayser Italia team is now busy in the final tests of the ColKa “Columbus Ka-band antenna” system at the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The new Euroepan communication system is now passing the final environmental tests before its launch to the ISS where it will be accommodated…