March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... software drivers. The two companies have also exchanged development hardware to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko imaging payload first flew in 2017 as a technology demonstrator on the nSight-1 satellite, SAC and ISIS worked to package...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
... (exploring regolith properties in microgravity and regolith interaction with spacecraft and spacesuit materials); the Gecko Gripper study (testing a gecko-inspired adhesive gripping device that can stick on command in space); and a number of others...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... of like the wooden beams in the walls that hold up a house. Experiments involving creatures like tadpoles, salamanders, geckos, newts, quail (eggs), rats, and mice have found results like increased rates of abnormality, unusual swimming...
