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small relatively inexpensive satellites

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referred to as cubesats will provide a

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variety of technology demonstrations on

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the space station using nanoracks

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nanoracks house experiments and we

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recently spoke with the operations

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manager and payload developer with

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nanoracks to find out more about these

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tiny inventions all right rob the logo

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is space for everyone what does that

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mean it's a nanorack okay well what a

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nanorack is

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is a cube

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or we can do a double cube or a triple

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cube or a quadruple cube

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we have a couple platforms on the

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international space station

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that include usb ports that you can plug

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these into so what you do is you fit

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your experiment inside this cube

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that connects to the controller card

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into the cube

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and then we plug it in into the

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platform on the iss

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now some people don't want to fit their

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experiment inside the cubes they want to

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fly something else

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so we have some facilities such as this

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microscope we have one just like this on

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board that the crew plugs into

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one of the laptops

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points it on something interesting

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nano tiny right so

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space is limited on the space station so

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it's perfect for folks to get their

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experiments to fit into something like

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this yes i mean this is a 10 by 10 by 10

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centimeter cube and

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so for the opportunity to fly

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we are

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relatively inexpensive and we do things

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very fast from concept to flight in nine

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months

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so to

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take advantage of the opportunity

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a lot of research developers are willing

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to downscale their experiment so that it

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will fit inside our our structure rather

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than trying to

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fit the spacecraft around the experiment

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and a unique concept as well is you have

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educators

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and researchers

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all over

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putting their experiments in here but

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you also have educators building these

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nanoracks yes we've got several programs

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that

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involve schools from around the world

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one of our most successful programs

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involves a

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valley christian high school in san jose

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california

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has flown

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four of these boxes so far that have

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split a nanorack

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four sub modules or minilabs and they

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fit a different experiment in each of

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these many labs

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with a camera and i've been able to pull

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down real-time pictures from each of the

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many labs what types of experiments will

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go into something like that what are

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they we've had bacterial growth

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experiments uh ferrofluid experiments

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they're about to fly up a co2 sensor

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that they'd like to test

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bronzing type experiments so it really

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works with whatever can fit inside the

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tube inside the cube and fits within

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nasa's safety rules

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why is this so unique for nasa and the

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space station to have this capability

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well we are a private company and we

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do not have a our selection process is

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who is ready to fly and

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who is able to provide us the funding to

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fly their experiment

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and we do things very very quickly we

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require a long process to decide who's

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more worthy than anybody else and we

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also provide a simple structure

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structure that researchers can work

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fortunately we have a close partnership

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with nasa so that we're constantly

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working with nasa making sure that the

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suggested experiments will fall within

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the safety requirements i'm a former

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safety person myself so that does that

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does help and

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nasa helps us with development of the

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procedures we do the

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so this gives a gateway to the space

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station that was not always already

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there not bad for a company that started

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out in someone's garage then moved to a