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…
La missione PLATO dell’ESA, a cui Kayser Italia sta contribuendo con la realizzazione della Instrument Control Unit (ICU) di bordo mediante il finanziamento dell’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana”, ha ricevuto il via libera a completare il processo di costruzione del satellite e del Payload: https://www.asi.it/2022/01/la-missione-plato-ottiene-il-via-libera-per-la-sua-prossima-fase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-missione-plato-ottiene-il-via-libera-per-la-sua-prossima-fase
After successful installation outside the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS), the “Columbus Ka-band antenna (ColKa)” is now approaching the completion of the commissioning phase. A wonderful picture of the ColKa installation during the Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) by a NASA astronaut is shown in the 2022 ISS calendar (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2022_iss_calendar.pdf month of October). Kayser…
On Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 3:41 a.m. EST SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the International Space Station. Among the science experiments Dragon is delivering to the space station is included the ESA experiment CYTOSKELETON that will be performed inside Biolab facility. The CYTOSKELETON experiment (old name RHOCYT) is a cell biological study, aimed to…