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NASA Johnson Space Flight CenterManufacturer
NASA Johnson Space Flight CenterDragon CRS-21 Mission
12/6/2020
Under the earlier Johnson Space Center services contract, Voyager conducted waste deployment operations using the Bishop Airlock on the ISS.
Nanoracks equipped the International Space Station with the Bishop Airlock in cooperation with NASA, the European Space Agency, and industry partners.
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.
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.
A 12-month study will begin 2024-05 using resources from both Voyager Space and the Habitation team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to evaluate the extensibility of Voyager’s Bishop Airlock design to the Mars Transit Vehicle architecture.