Updates
ExoLab arrives at Purdue!
ExoLab is safely back on Earth and on its way to Purdue University for post flight research! Missed out on ExoLab-11, or want to run with us again? Come join us for ExoLab REPLAY! Bring your students right to the very edge of discovery with a microgravity…
What is the nature of a plant?
Wu wei: effortless effort. Playing with Anthropic’s 3.5 Sonnet: create a short discourse on “the nature of a plant” in the mindset of Alan Watts: “A plant is not so much a thing as it is a process – a flowing, growing manifestation of the universe exploring itself. Its roots reach deep into the earth,…
Magnitude.io Announces Collaboration with Purdue University
Purdue University joins the ExoLab-11 mission, studying seeds germinated and grown on the International Space Station. The research will use RNA sequencing to explore plant adaptation, while students around the world participate through the magnitude.io/ network of science labs. ALBANY, Calif., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — magnitude.io/, a provider of STEM education and space-based research…
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…