KAMC produced nanoscale images of individual lunar grains using a transmission electron microscope capable of imaging individual atoms.
Portland State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS), a holographic microscope, on the International Space Station to study how life adapts under extreme conditions.
Wollman and colleagues started from an open source microscope design developed at Stanford and modified it for robustness, lower cost, and easier use in harsh flight environments.
The FlightScope team deployed the microscope to the Boulby underground laboratory in an old British salt mine that serves as an analogue environment for the Moon and Mars.
Canadensys Aerospace is providing a Multispectral Microscope on Intuitive Machines IM-3, which is currently scheduled in Q3.
Butch Wilmore conducted experiments using a 3-D printed moon microscope aboard the International Space Station.
Resolve Optics designed the microscope lens to provide high transmission across the 365–1000 nm spectral bandwidth and to maintain best possible focus throughout that bandwidth.
Resolve Optics received an order from a leading aerospace company to design and supply an optimized wide waveband lens for a multispectral microscope required for a Moon exploration mission.
The Lunar Vertex rover multispectral microscope will use an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide wideband illumination from 365 to 1000 nm.
Resolve Optics can provide Canadensys with a space-ready product for the Lunar Vertex multispectral microscope.
All components of Resolve Optics’ new lens for the Lunar Vertex multispectral microscope are manufactured from materials approved by international space agencies.
The Cygnus NG-13 is carrying Mochii, the first scanning electron microscope for use in space, developed by Seattle-based company Voxa.
Space Tango launched a 7U CubeLab containing the FLUMIAS-DEA miniaturized fluorescent microscope on the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services-15 (CRS-15) mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 5:42 AM EDT on 2018-06-29.