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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.


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