Research on the International Space Station: An Overview

Abstract

Engineers and scientists from around the world are working together to refine their operational relationships and build from their experiences conducting early science to ensure maximum utilization of the expanded capabilities aboard ISS. This paper will summarize science results and accomplishments, and discuss how the early science utilization provides the foundation for continuing research campaigns aboard the ISS that will benefit future exploration programs.1 This paper is derived from forthcoming

Numerical Simulation of the Air Cooling System for Scientific Payload Rack on a Space Station

“…The advantage of conducting scientific research on the space station is that astronauts can enter the microgravity environment frequently and operate experiments continuously for a long time [5]. At present, the projects that have been carried out on the space station involve various fields, such as technology development for exploration, physical science in microgravity, biological science in microgravity, human research program, observing the earth and educational activities [6].…”

Some Challenges in Gravity Related Research

“…Current and past platforms for long-duration microgravity are the Russian Photon and Bion satellites (Nikolaev and Ilyin, 1981;Ilyin, 2000), the Space Shuttle (Crippen and Young, 2011) and Soyuz missions (Van Loon et al, 2007), and the Salyut, Skylab (NASA, 1973;Michel et al, 1976), Mir, and ISS (Evans et al, 2009;Ruttley et al, 2017) space stations or the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft (e.g., Preu and Braun, 2014;Hu and Kang, 2019), the future Chinese Space Station (e.g., Wang et al, 2019), or its predecessor facilities, such as the TongGong Spacelab (Gu et al, 2016;Li et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018).…”

Overview of Materials International Space Station Experiment 7B

“…[1][2][3][4] MISSE is a collaborative effort among the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, industry, and academia to provide a test bed on the exterior of ISS for the purpose of evaluating the durability of materials and components in the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment. MISSE 7 is composed of two suitcase-sized Passive Experiment Containers (PECs), identified as MISSE 7A and MISSE 7B.…”