Overview
This study will be a standardization effort in order to optimize the extremely high costs related to the development and testing of custom instrumentation for space biology. Therefore, the Standard for Space Bioreactors (SSBio) shall help in the future to produce cost efficient, flight carrier independent, interoperable and small instruments. Ready to be deployed on a variety of microgravity platforms, either on ground, parabolic flights, sounding rockets or on the ISS facilities interchangeably. The modular design (plug and play) will provide maximum versatility and the standardized interfaces will allow for the development of low cost third party expansion modules.
