Permanent habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. ISS is the joint project of 5 agencies: NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). ISS provides a microgravity environment for conducting various science experiments with Petabytes of data generated over 2 decades.

Have you ever ridden a roller coaster and felt the sensation of free fall? That’s how we feel in orbit all the time. This weightless condition is known as microgravity and it is very difficult to simulate in laboratories on Earth. The International Space Station brings the opportunity to test phenomena in microgravity and potentially unveil new information for R&D.

Scientists have flown thousands of research experiments to space. Ranging from protein crystallization to neuroscience, cancer and osteoporosis,  a lot of data has been generated since the first Space Shuttle flight in the 80’s. Nowadays, the ISS is at full speed with research running under commercial and governmental activities.