Skip to main content

The size of the space laboratory is not very big

The size of the space laboratory is not very big

There are many laboratories in space and the most well-known of them are laboratories of Mir, Skylab, and ISS (International Space Station) but also in deep space and planetary probes like Viking has been a small size laboratory installed in those vehicles. Also, some satellites have contained biological test capsules, which have used to test life support systems.

But the thing is that there might also make another type of biological and structural tests. The size of those laboratories is not very big, and they were made by using the 70's technology. So the question is, why X-37B cannot handle those missions, like microgravity tests by using remote control. The remote-controlled systems are saving time and money in that kind of cases.

And the thing is that kind of automatized systems can operate everywhere in the solar system, and those operations might keep secret for some special reasons, what might not uncover for great public.  The thing in remote-controlled systems is that they can operate from the safe distances by using cameras that are connected to microscopes and manipulators. Those systems can be operated from the ground station, which makes them suitable to analyze the biological material, what might be infecting the crew.

When we are looking at things like remote-controlled laboratories, they can be installed in manned space stations, by using the bearing, what allows those modules to rotate, and the thing is that there might test things, like growing food in the space. But those tests can be made also in the separated scientific satellites, and in those areas would be used many dangerous organisms. One of the things is that mushrooms are a very interesting part of the food in space stations and long-term space trips.

Mushrooms can handle waste very effectively, and that makes possible to create a closed ecosystem in the spacecraft, but there is one problem. If the mushroom would start to sprawl in a closed system, that would mean very bad problems. The air in the craft would be poisoned by the germs, and that's why those tests must be made in the closed and remote-controlled modules, where those organisms would not infect all the air and surfaces in the space station.

There are other things, which might interest other people. When we are facing cases, that somebody wants to test really dangerous organisms, like Ebola, those tests might be done in the scientific satellite, and after the tests, those systems can send to Sun, where organisms and other material, what is used in those tests will be destroyed.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Antimatter motor

Antimatter motor Antimatter would be an effective fuel for interstellar spacecraft Antimatter would be the most effective power source in the world. It will be the most suitable motor for interstellar spacecraft, but the problem is that thing is very reactive. And actually one of the biggest problems with this kind of motor is that the gram of antimatter would turn the entire planet to the molecular nebula. So this kind of motor can produce only outside of our solar system. Producing antimatter would need large particle accelerators, and that kind of systems might look like giant donuts, what is floating on the space. There are two ways to create the antimatter motor, one is to store the anti-ions in the magnetic bottle, where the pushing magnetic field will keep those ions away from the wall of the bottle, and then the antimatter would conduct to the water or some other particle. The huge explosion or annihilation reaction would send the rocket to a very high speed. The antimatt...

Thoughts about strong leadership

Thoughts about strong leadership Everybody knows, how the dictators would rise in the power of the nation, and the thing what makes people supporting those persons is that they offer strong leadership as the way to make nation proud. And also they have always the same parroting, the foreigners and other nations have a too strong influence in the country. But what makes those persons like some Robert Mugabe or Kim Jong Un to think that they are only possible leaders, and why people would need them? Why there is nobody else allowed to try to come to the head of the state, or even try to challenge those leaders? If they are so popular as they want people to think or believe, why they don't tolerate any kind of opposition if they are done so good and big actions for their people, that they are celebrated in every home in their country. The thing that would return the morale and spine for the nation is the strong leader, who would put the state back in order and row. The thing is ...

Next-generation nanotechnology can be independent-operating molecule-sized robots.

 Next-generation nanotechnology can be independent-operating molecule-sized robots. "A DNAzyme (red) uses its binding arms to dock at a specific location on an RNA strand (yellow) and then cleaves it at its core. High-resolution, real-time NMR, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Fluorescence Spectroscopy." "As well as Molecular Dynamics Simulations are used to identify the structure. And catalytic mechanisms of the DNAzyme. Credit: HHU/Manuel Etzkorn" (https://scitechdaily.com/dnazymes-how-active-dna-biocatalysts-that-destroy-unwanted-rna-molecules-work/) The active DNA catalysts are the gate to DNA-controlled, independently-operating, molecular-size nanomachines.  The DNAzymes or active DNA biocatalysts are next-generation tools for destroying unwanted RNA. The DNA molecule is one of the tools. That can use for controlling molecular-size machines. DNA is like a chemical computer program. And if the researchers can make synthetic DNA that can make exactly what the...