Facility

Acronym

MAIS

Full name

Marangoni Convection in Space

Description

MAIS' HARDWARE
1. Experiment Assembly and Video Camera
16-cell PCU-carrousel with motor drives
Optical system with motor drive
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Owner

Fokker Space and Systems

Operation

In a joint endeavour, FSS, Stork Product Engineering and CCM have embarked on the development of a facility for protein crystallization in microgravity. By taking a modular approach, the facility offers at its core unitary protein crystallization cells (PCCs). These cells and their actuation mechanism are designed and developed by CCM. Three mutually .... (full text)

Data sheet

Overview:

MAIS hardware overview

Photographs:

Protein Crystallisation Cell (PCC)

PCC assembly

PCC's in carousel, bottom view

PCC's in carousel, topview

PCC-carousel assembly

Carousel in AUX-2 late access module

Fitting the module in Maser-5, just hours before launch