14 Facts About Nanoracks

Nanoracks LLC is a private in-space services companywhich builds space hardware and in-space repurposing tools.

Some of Nanoracks customers include Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, the European Space Agency, the German Space Agency, NASA, Planet Labs, Space Florida, Virgin Galactic, Adidas, Aerospace Corporation, National Reconnaissance Office, UAE Space Agency, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, and the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Nanoracks currently helps facilitate science on the International Space Station in multiple ways and built the Bishop Airlock to launch payloads from the International Space Station.

Nanoracks was founded in 2009 by Jeffrey Manber and Charles Miller to provide commercial hardware and services for the U S National Laboratory on board the International Space Station via a Space Act Agreement with NASA.

Nanoracks signed their first contract with NASA in September 2009 and had their first laboratory on the Space Station in April 2010.

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In October 2013, Nanoracks became the first company to coordinate the deployment of small satellites from the ISS via the airlock in the Japanese Kibo module.

Nanoracks announced an agreement to fly a Chinese DNA experiment from the Beijing Institute of Technology on the International Space Station.

The agreement includes Nanoracks delivering the experiment to the American side of the ISS in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and berthing the experiment to Nanoracks' orbiting laboratory facilities, then sending data back to the Chinese researchers.

In 2022, Nanoracks became the first company to cut a piece of medal in space.

Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is a commercially-funded airlock module launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX CRS-21 on 6 December 2020.

Nanoracks deploys small CubeSats into orbit from the ISS through the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer via the airlock in the Japanese Kibo module, after the satellites are transported to the ISS on a cargo spacecraft.

Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer is a self-contained deployment system that mechanically and electrically isolates CubeSats from the ISS, the ISS crew, and cargo resupply vehicles.

Nanoracks External Platform, installed in August 2016, is a commercial gateway-and-return to the extreme environment of space.

Nanoracks Kaber Microsat Deployer is a reusable system that allows the International Space Station to control and command satellite deployments.