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Rhodium Scientific to Test the Concept of Biomanufacturing in Space
When you pack for an extended trip, you usually bring everything you will need while you are away—food, clothing, medication, and other necessities. But what do you do if your trip takes you to space, where cargo room is extremely limited and expensive? A team of researchers from Rhodium Scientific and the University of Florida propose that you pack some useful microbes along with your essentials. These microbes could help make other products you might need during your stay.
APRIL 07, 2023
Podcast: Creating Yoghurt in Space with Dr. Rebecca Allen
On this week’s episode of Space Connect Podcast, host Bella Richards chats with Dr Rebecca Allen, a long-time astronomist, and the lead of an Australian project in collaboration with secondary high school students that have sought to create space-made yoghurt on the International Space Station. As the team currently awaits the arrival of their space-made yoghurt back to Australia, Dr Allen chats about why they decided on yoghurt, how this could help astronauts in the future and her experience as a woman in the space industry.
MARCH 2, 2022
One Year Since Blast Off for Space Institute
In just 12 months, the team at the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology have fought the spiralling threat of space junk, won precious time on the remarkable James Webb Space Telescope, and helped our students send microbes into space to explore making yoghurt in microgravity.
JANUARY 31, 2022
Synthetic Cryptobiology May Revolutionize Secure Data Transport
At the heart of synthetic biology and bioengineering is DNA, nature’s carrier of genetic information and the biological instructions that make each organism unique. Additionally, data storage within DNA is a rapidly advancing field, for not only biotechnology but also energy and materials science applications. However, to store and carry data, the DNA must avoid damage, degradation, and mutation. Scientists are turning to blue-green algae as an unlikely hero for the safe transport of these data—all the way to space and back.
JANUARY 21, 2022
Space-loving Students Find Milky Way to Grow Yoghurt in Orbit
High school students from across Victoria are boldly growing where no students have grown before, sending bacteria on a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station to test the possibilities of creating yoghurt in space.
The experiments are part of the Swinburne Space Youth Innovation Challenge, which asked students to design and develop an experiment that could efficiently help improve astronaut health and wellbeing by growing good bacteria in space.
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Biotechnology Brings Microgravity Down to Earth
The International Space Station (ISS) welcomes scientific guests, that is, experimental modules that have reserved berths in the ISS’s payload racks. In a sense, the ISS is a scientific cruise ship. It is extraordinarily exclusive even though the accommodations are plain, the provisions are sparse, and the attentions of the busy astronaut staff are, necessarily, fleeting.
JUNE 30, 2021
Sierra Space and Rhodium Scientific Sign Agreement Exploring Viability of Science Operations on Sierra Space LIFE™ Habitat
Sierra Space Corporation (Sierra Space), the new commercial space subsidiary of global aerospace and national security leader Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), today announced the signing of a joint agreement with Rhodium Scientific, an innovative provider of space microgravity science mission and logistics services.
JUNE 16, 2021
Launching Students' Ideas into Space
Australia's Swinburne University of Technology launches their "Youth Space Innovation Challenge" with Rhodium Scientific!
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Arkisys & Rhodium Scientific Team to Advance Science Missions for the Port
PROVIDED BY: Arkisys, INC
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
The Business of Science for Space Biotech: Research AND Development for the Next 20 Years
PROVIDED BY: Guest Contributor, Founder and CEO of Rhodium Scientific, Olivia Gamez Holzhaus
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
A Partnership with Rhodium Scientific Furthers Microgravity Research
PROVIDED BY: iButtonLink, LLC
OCTOBER 5, 2020
From Scientist to Entrepreneur
Rhodium Scientific founder helps create pathways for business, research.
PROVIDED BY: Ashley Festa, Texas State University, 2017