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MISSE stands for Materials
International Space
Station Experiment. What
we did was back in 1996 we had a program
called MEP was a predecessor to MISSE we
put up on the MIR space Station. It was
to expose materials
to space environment.
So from that beginning in 1996 we
transitioned into a
series of MISSE missions.
We have had over 80 organizations expose
over 4000 samples to
the space environment
for research. What happens is at the
next stage now that we have a feasible
design now we have to do the detail
design. Researchers will be looking to
mature all of these
concepts that we have
into feasible concepts that we can say
this is our baseline configuration that
has been fully vetted by the NASA team
the MISSE-X team as well as the ISS
program Office, who is
our infusion partner.
So what will happen is we will have
our facility built,
the MISSE-X facility
built, we will have filtered in all the
experiments from the different research
communities, from DOD, NASA, industry
and academia. We will have done all the
integration and tests
on these experiments,
integrated them into
our MISSE-X facility
and delivered a payload
which is complete
with the facility and the experiments
ready to launch. We are going to deliver
that in Novemeber 2015. So going on from
there, what we are
targeting, we are targeting
SPACE-X 11 launch vehicle and a Dragon
Capsule and that is going to be targeted
for April of 2016. So what happens is we
will launch in the unpressurized volume
of the Dragon capsule,
and what that means
is that once we get up
to ISS and is berthed
to ISS, then they have the robotic arm
that comes out and removes our payload
and it will install it on the ELC2 site,
which is the Express logistics site 2 up
on ISS. Which is
currently where MISSE 8 is
still deployed.So MISSE 8 will have been
removed and brought
back to earth and MISSE-X
will be installed at the ELC2 location.
All of that is done
robotically, we have all
of the connections for data for power,
that will be robotically
connected and then
we will be operational. And operational
means we are able to
send up commands to our
active experiments to
either actuate certain
experiments, be able to turn things on,
turn things off, uplink data, downlink
data and just kind of
monitor what is going
on in the space
environment. The experiments
will stay exposed for a certain duration
of time, whether it
is 6 months or 1 year.
Some of those experiments will then be
retrieved and brought back to earth in a
return vehicle. Some
of those we have already
gotten all the information so we can
destructively destoy
them upon re-entry.