Aryabhata Mission

Nanoracks provides the launch opportunity to the ISS through their Space Act Agreement with NASA.

In 2021, GITAI will conduct a technical demonstration of autonomous robot operations on the International Space Station (ISS).

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.

There is an expanding need for space-based services driven by increasing requirements for space-enabled Big Data Analytics missions, commercial crew missions to the ISS, and connectivity use-cases.

Klim Shipenko, the director of Vyzov, completed his medical checks at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and was confirmed fit to fly to the ISS.

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.

Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight at NASA Headquarters, estimated that NASA would save about $1,500,000,000 per year after ISS retirement.

The Emirati astronaut selected to fly on Crew-6 will be the second person from the UAE to go into orbit and the first person from the UAE who is not from an ISS partner (Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, United States) to remain on the station for an extended mission.

Upon installation and testing on the ISS, the Velas space node will benefit from the secure and conducive environment provided by the ISS to create more space-based use cases over time.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel expressed concern that commercial stations supported by NASA were unlikely to be ready before the ISS is retired at the end of the decade.

All ISS partners except Russia have agreed to operate the ISS through 2030, while Russia announced it would remain on the station to 2028.

Airbus’s Bartolomeo external payload facility and Nanoracks’ Bishop airlock are existing ISS facilities that companies plan to enable customers to start work on and then shift that work to Starlab.

The NASA Phase 2 Ignite SBIR contract supports NASA’s exploration of new transport concepts to return cargo to Earth from the ISS and future Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs).

Rocket Factory Augsburg announced a consortium two months before Seville to develop Argo, a cargo service to the ISS and future commercial space stations.

The ESA commercial cargo program announced in Seville creates a new opportunity for companies to supply cargo services to the ISS and future commercial space stations.

The PIL-01 investigation launched to the ISS on SpaceX’s 29th cargo resupply mission (SpX-29) for NASA.

The flight is expected to use the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle and travel to the International Space Station (ISS).

Rocket Factory Augsburg and ATMOS Space Cargo are collaborating on the Argo cargo vehicle concept for the ISS.

On the SpaceX-29 mission to the ISS, Redwire launched materials for an investigation to bioprint cardiac tissue on station using the BFF.

A U.S. State Department fact sheet dated 2023-11-09 reiterated the goal of a joint mission to the ISS in 2024 and training of Indian astronauts at Johnson Space Center.