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Bookmark or Share- NASA’s BioSentinel Team Prepares CubeSat For Deep Space FlightBioSentinel’s mission builds on Ames’ history, combining the center’s strengths in space biology and CubeSat technology. Following 15 years of Ames’ experience in developing and flying CubeSats that carried and studied living microbes in low-Earth orbit, BioSentinel will be the first CubeSat to run a biology experiment in deep space.
- NASA TechPort - Project DataThe BioSentinel project will provide: A radiation biosensor capability that will be utilized in future robotic and human missions to the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and Mars, for evaluation of the long-term biological effects of deep--space radiation.
- What is BioSentinel? - NASABioSentinel is a six-unit spacecraft weighing about 30 pounds. It houses the yeast cells in tiny compartments inside microfluidic cards – custom hardware that allows for the controlled flow of extremely small volumes of liquids that will activate and sustain the yeast.
- Biosentinel Deep Space Mission - NASAThe BioSentinel mission has two primary objectives: (1) to develop the capability to support biological organisms in deep interplanetary space, and (2) to characterize the deep space radiation environment and its effects on biological organisms.
- NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - DetailsBioSentinel is a 6U (10 x 20 x 30 cm) cubesat mission designed to study these effect of radiation on organisms in deep space. The mission uses two strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the model organisms to understand how high-energy radiation can damage DNA.
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