Session
Poster Session 1
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
The mission aims to launch four separate cultures of tardigrades aboard a 3U CubeSat to Low Earth Orbit to study the effects of UV and cosmic radiation on their genetics and cell composition, which may, in turn, affect their reproduction cycle.
• tBEARR is a 3U CubeSat mission under development by the Embry-Riddle Orbital Research Association (ERORA), an undergraduate research club at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL.
• Critical life support systems will be developed to maintain tardigrade viability as orbital experiments are being conducted.
• Tardigrades, in their cryptobiotic state, will be exposed to space radiation and later rehydrated in orbit to assess their reproductive viability post-exposure.
Document Type
Event
tBEARR - Tardigrade Bio-ExplorAtion Reproduction Research Satellite
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The mission aims to launch four separate cultures of tardigrades aboard a 3U CubeSat to Low Earth Orbit to study the effects of UV and cosmic radiation on their genetics and cell composition, which may, in turn, affect their reproduction cycle.
• tBEARR is a 3U CubeSat mission under development by the Embry-Riddle Orbital Research Association (ERORA), an undergraduate research club at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL.
• Critical life support systems will be developed to maintain tardigrade viability as orbital experiments are being conducted.
• Tardigrades, in their cryptobiotic state, will be exposed to space radiation and later rehydrated in orbit to assess their reproductive viability post-exposure.
