Glossaire
NewSpace: microgravity laboratories - modus operandi

Payload capacity

In the astronautics field, this is the maximum mass of payload a launcher can put into a given orbit.

Unipotent cells

These can only produce one kind of cell.

Payload

Part of a space vehicle designed to fulfil the mission’s objectives. A rocket or launcher’s payload is the artificial satellite or space probe it must put into orbit.

Bioreactor

A biotechnology tool for cell culture (yeasts, bacteria, microscopic fungi, algae, animal and plant cells) for diverse applications such as the production of biomass or metabolites.

RNAlater^®

RNAlater^® is a non-toxic RNA stabilisation solution used in the conservation of biological specimens. It works on the principle of inactivating RNase to stabilise the RNA so that the period during which samples are stored...