Experiment

Exposed Facility (EF) Payloads

The experiments to be operated on Kibo’s Exposed Facility (EF) will be integrated into the standard EF payload whose size is 0.8m x 1.0m x 1.85m with a weight less than 500kg. The EF can accommodate up to 10 JEM EF payloads. The EF will supply electrical power, coolant fluid, and communications to those payloads.

The current EF configuration is as follows.

Installed payloads

JAXA payloads

• Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI)
• CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET)
• Space Is your Laboratory [PDF: 5.99MB]

Others (platforms, etc.)

• IVA-replaceable Small Exposed Experiment Platform (i-SEEP)
• Exposed Experiment Handrail Attachment Mechanism (ExHAM, ExHAM2)

NASA payloads

• Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)
• ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS)
• NanoRacks External Platform (NREP)
• Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM)
• Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS)

Installed payloads in the past

• HICO and RAIDS Experiment Payload (HREP) (NASA)
• Space Environment Data Acquisition equipment (SEDA-AP) (JAXA)
• Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) (JAXA)
• Multi-mission Consolidated Equipment (MCE) (JAXA)

How to utilize Kibo's Exposed Facility