News : Experiment - International Space Station

CsPINs Experiment Completed (May 2, 2011)

Dynamism of Auxin Efflux Facilitators, CsPINs, Responsible for Gravity-regulated Growth and Development in Cucumber (CsPINs), which has been performed using the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) on board Kibo, was completed.

Results of CERISE Experiment Officially Released (April 28, 2011)

Results of the CERISEexperiment, which aimed at investigating effects of microgravity on nematode C. elegans, which was performed using the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in Kibo, will officially be released.

"Message in a Bottle" Returns to TKSC (April 28, 2011)

JAXA Education Payload Observation (JAXA EPO) "Message in a Bottle", which was performed during the STS-133 mission's spacewalk, was returned to the ground aboard the return flight of the STS-133. When the bottle arrived at JAXA, it did not contain vacuum of space as it expected. It seemed that the bottle was damaged during shipping.

CsPINs Experiment Begins (April 27, 2011)

Dynamism of Auxin Efflux Facilitators, CsPINs, Responsible for Gravity-regulated Growth and Development in Cucumber (CsPINs), which uses the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) on board Kibo, began.

Nanoskelton-2 Experiment Completed (April 12, 2011)

Production of High Performance Nanomaterials in Microgravity-2 (Nanoskeleton-2), which was performed using the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in the Kibo laboratory, was completed.

Nanoskelton-2 Begins (March 30, 2011)

The Production of High Performance Nanomaterials in Microgravity-2 (Nanoskeleton-2), a material production experiment that uses the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF), began on board Kibo.

Matroshka-Kibo Experiment Completed (March 23, 2011)

Space radiation measurement of the Kibo module using the Matryoshka facility, which has jointly been performed by Russia, ESA and JAXA since May 2010, was completed on March 11, 2011.

Microbe-II Completed (March 9, 2011)

The second sample collection session of the Microbial Dynamics in International Space Station- Part II (Microbe-II), which has been performed on board Kibo, was completed

"Message in a Bottle" Performed aboard ISS (March 3, 2011)

"Message in a Bottle" JAXA Education Payload Observation (JAXA EPO) was performed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by Extravehicular Activity (EVA) crew members during the STS-133 mission's spacewalk.

Microbe-II Sample Collection Resumes (February 28, 2011)

The second sample collection session of the Microbial Dynamics in International Space Station- Part II (Microbe-II) was resumed.