The First ExoLab & What Comes Next!

Year 4. This was the 2016-2017 season. With the engineering expertise of our commercial service provider, Space Tango, and support from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Magnitude was finally headed to the International Space Station! Flown aboard the SpaceX-10 resupply mission, ExoLab-1 launched from Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad 39A on 19 February, 2017, and returned home 30 days later. The plant that was studied was the model organism Arabidopsis…

Jun 2023

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Look Ahead: ExoLab NEXT! Look Back: Year 7, The Leguminauts.

Look Ahead: ExoLab NEXT As we mentioned at the beginning of the month, we have some exciting announcements to make. We would like to continue to extend access to space for students, researchers, and citizen scientists all over the world. Today we are excited to announce ExoLab: NEXT. An open source hardware initiative for anyone that would like to construct their lab to connect with the ExoLab network of science laboratories. The current form factor…

Jun 2023

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November with Magnitude.io

November is a busy month for Magnitude.io! UNISEC Global I’m currently in Kyushu Japan during a break of the University Space Engineering Consortium annual meeting as I write this post. Student representatives from 36 countries are in attendance to share the work they are doing in CanSats, ground stations, and small satellites. During this event I have had the opportunity to meet with many universities and present the work that we have done…

Nov 2014

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