{"id":500230,"date":"2018-07-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f2fd814e529d0f06ea9bd7a259f0ae89"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"horizons-science-installing-ice-cubes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=500230","title":{"rendered":"Horizons science: installing ICE Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe International Commercial Experiments service \u2013 ICE Cubes for short \u2013 facility provides commercial access to microgravity offering faster, easier and more affordable access to research in space.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst installed the first experiment cubes in the facility that is housed in Europe\u2019s research laboratory Columbus, part of the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe International Space University is the first customer to run experiments in ICE Cubes. The plug-and-play cubes need only to be slotted into the facility and the data collection can begin.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe first cube houses an experiment that is continuing research on methane-producing microorganisms to see how they survive in space conditions. In the longer term, the knowledge gained could lead to these microorganisms for bio-mining of asteroids to produce methane to fuel future space missions.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe second International Space University experiment is an interactive art installation that brings space to Earth and back again, highlighting the versatility of the ICE Cubes facility. The cube contains a kaleidoscope linked to a ground installation that is activated by the pulse of participants. The images are then beamed down to the installation on Earth, thanks to ICE Cubes\u2019 unique 24-hour accessibility.\n<\/p>\n

\nResearchers can access the data from their payloads at any time via a dedicated mission control centre at Space Applications Services\u2019 premises in Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium. Clients can connect to their experiment from their own location over internet to read the data and even send commands directly.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor more information on ICE Cubes, visit the website<\/a> to see how you can fly your experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nThe International Commercial Experiments service – ICE Cubes for short – facility provides commercial access to microgravity offering faster, easier and more affordable access to research in space.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst installed the first experiment cubes in the facility that is housed in Europe’s research laboratory Columbus, part of the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe International Space University is the first customer to run experiments in ICE Cubes. The plug-and-play cubes need only to be slotted into the facility and the data collection can begin.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe first cube houses an experiment that is continuing research on methane-producing microorganisms to see how they survive in space conditions. In the longer term, the knowledge gained could lead to these microorganisms for bio-mining of asteroids to produce methane to fuel future space missions.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe second International Space University experiment is an interactive art installation that brings space to Earth and back again, highlighting the versatility of the ICE Cubes facility. The cube contains a kaleidoscope linked to a ground installation that is activated by the pulse of participants. The images are then beamed down to the installation on Earth, thanks to ICE Cubes’ unique 24-hour accessibility.\n<\/p>\n

\nResearchers can access the data from their payloads at any time via a dedicated mission control centre at Space Applications Services’ premises in Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium. Clients can connect to their experiment from their own location over internet to read the data and even send commands directly.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor more information on ICE Cubes, visit the website<\/a> to see how you can fly your experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500231,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500230\/revisions\/500231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}