The Bishop Airlock provides the largest deployment capability on the International Space Station and serves as a platform for proof-of-concept operations, subsystem and robotics testing, radiation exposure of hardware, and satellite deployments.
As of 7:05 p.m. Central time on Saturday, 2022-07-02, NanoRacks cycled the Bishop Airlock aboard the International Space Station and deployed a waste disposal technology that removed approximately 78.02 kg. of waste from the station.
Cislunar Industries is partnering on a concept to harvest, cut, refine, and reuse metal from existing space junk, including a planned Bishop Airlock demonstration in 2023.
Nanoracks collaborated with GITAI in 2020 to demonstrate a GITAI robotic arm executing tasks inside the Bishop Airlock.
NASA was responsible for launching the GITAI S1 to the ISS and installing it inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock.
GITAI Japan, Inc. conducted a technology demonstration of the GITAI autonomous space robot S1 inside the ISS Nanoracks Bishop Airlock from October 13-16.
GITAI is collaborating with Nanoracks to conduct a technical demonstration of the GITAI S1 robot executing tasks inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock at the ISS.
NASA is responsible for transporting the GITAI S1 space robotic arm to the ISS and installing it inside the Bishop Airlock.
GITAI's S1 robot will conduct two experiments in the ISS Bishop Airlock: IVA (Intra-Vehicular Activity) tasks and ISA (In-Space Assembly) tasks.
The GITAI robot 'S1' will conduct two experiments inside the ISS Bishop Airlock: IVA tasks and assembly of structures and panels.
NASA is responsible for transporting the S1 space robotic arm to the ISS and installing it in the Bishop Airlock.
The GITAI robot will conduct a technical demonstration of executing various tasks inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock.
Nanoracks equipped the International Space Station with the Bishop Airlock in cooperation with NASA, the European Space Agency, and industry partners.
Nanoracks launched the Bishop airlock on SpaceX CRS-21 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
The ISS demonstration will take place inside Nanoracks' Bishop airlock module, which was launched to the ISS on December 6, 2020.
The largest payload on CRS-21 is the Bishop airlock built by Nanoracks as a commercial facility for deploying satellites and hosting external payloads.
The Bishop airlock module will be shipped later 2020-09 to Florida for integration with a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft launching to the International Space Station in 2020-11-01.
Nanoracks started development of the Bishop airlock several years prior to its planned 2020 ISS installation to meet growing demand for satellite deployments from the station.
GITAI will be the first commercial company in the world to conduct a technical demonstration of a robot performing versatile tasks within the Nanoracks Bishop airlock in collaboration with Nanoracks.
Nanoracks CEO Jeffrey Manber emphasized the purpose of the Bishop Airlock is to provide increased commercial access to the ISS and support complex, customizable projects.