The second run of the BIOFILMS experiment was concluded in August 2022, and the samples were back on Earth after one month on board the International Space Station. This was the second flight mission for the BIOFILMS hardware developed by Kayser Italia, the third and last mission is planned on January 2023 on board SpX-27.…
July 13th. The AstroBio CubeSat (ABCS) is a 3U cubesat minisatellite that was launched on July 13th 2022 from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana with the inaugural Vega-C qualification flight within the LARES-2 launch program. ABCS will be released in an approximately circular orbit at a height of 5900 km and 70 °…
May 18th in-Flight call with Samantha Cristoforetti at the headquarters of the Italian Space Agency. On the occasion, the Italian experiments that Samantha will carry out during her Minerva mission were presented on stage. Kayser Italia, represented by Eng. Elisa Carrubba, participated in the event bringing her contribution to the Nutriss, Lidal, Prometeo and Suture…
May 2022, at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Cologne, Kayser Italia team (Alessandra Tortora, Fabrizio Carubia, Marco Passerai) will lead the integration activities of the BIOFILMS experiment that will be launched on board Space-X 25 in June 2022. This is the second flight mission for the BIOFILMS hardware that is developed…
On 29th March 2022, the Science Verification Test (SVT) of the PROMETEO project was successfully concluded at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Pontedera. The outcome of this test paves the way to the execution of the experiment on board the International Space Station planned in August 2022. Oxidative stress underlies many deleterious effect of…