Category:NanoRacks

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We approached NASA in 2009 with a unique proposition and that is: if we were to design and develop our own research hardware for on the Station, using our own funding—we asked NASA for no funding - and in return for that bargain, that agreement, could we go ahead and market that hardware commercially? And NASA agreed. It’s an easy date to remember—on 09/09/09, September 9, 2009, we signed the Space Act Agreement...

Our agreement with NASA basically says that we can market to whomever we wish as long as it upholds the honor and the integrity of the U.S. National Lab and we take that very seriously. We’re very proud to be representing the U.S. National Lab and the first U.S. National Lab in space.

We’ve been surprised that the first group that really jumped at the NanoRacks opportunity was education...

We are extremely proud that the first NASA NRA (NASA Research Announcement) has come out that includes the NanoRacks facility...

Everything at NanoRacks is about standardization, open source, miniaturization, ease of use, low-cost...

It’s a very exciting time. We are very pleased that we have what we consider the world’s first commercial laboratory in space and it is mostly self-funded. It soon will be four platforms. "Three are inside the Station and one external..." [Update: Q2 2015 - http://nanoracks.com/products/external-platform/ - http://nanoracks.com/external-payload-platform-ready-for-space-station/ - KIBO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDgsv8JDGAU]

[W]e have a multi-year customer pipeline. It’s growing in sophistication. NASA gave us permission five months ago to develop a platform outside the station. This is our external platform program and we are working on it with Astrium of North America. They are manufacturing the platform and the principal customers are very sophisticated users of sensors and advanced electronics and next generation satellite systems...

We were very, very gratified when Virgin Galactic selected NanoRacks to design, develop and build their research hardware on SpaceShip Two. What’s so exciting for the industry about that is it creates a standard—from the leading suborbital platform to the U.S. National Lab...

Congress and NASA have created the non-governmental organization (NGO) CASIS—the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, and we work very closely with CASIS to increase utilization and we think that having a NGO/not for pro!t pathway and having a commercial pathway like NanoRacks is really a good model for moving forward beyond low earth orbit.

-- Jeffrey Manber of NanoRacks