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Influence of Factors of the Space Environment on the Condition of the System of Microorganisms-Hosts Relating to the Problem of Environmental Safety of Flight Techniques and Planetary Quarantine (Biorisk)
03.22.12

Overview | Description | Applications | Operations | Results | Publications | Images

Experiment/Payload Overview

Information provided courtesy of the Energia website.
Brief Summary

Biorisk is looking at the effects of microbial bacteria and fungus on structural materials used in spacecraft construction. Specifically this study will be investigating the effects of how changes in solar activity affect the growth of these microbes.

Principal Investigator

  • N. D. Novikova, Ph.D., , , , Russia

    • Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

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    Payload Developer Information Pending

    Sponsoring Space Agency

    Roscosmos

    Sponsoring Organization:

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    ISS Expedition Duration:

    June 2002 - September 2011



    Expeditions Assigned

    5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24, 27/28

    Previous ISS Missions

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    Experiment/Payload Description

    Research Summary

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    Description

    Acquisition of new data on possible manifestations (boundaries) of phenotypic adaptation and genotypic changes in bacterial and fungus associations forming a typical microbiota of structural materials used in space technology.

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    Applications

    Space Applications

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    Earth Applications

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    Operations

    Operational Requirements

    Biorisk-KM Kit, Biorisk-MCB Container.

    Operational Protocols

    Accommodation and exposure of "passive" samples of structural materials and "microorganisms - substrates" systems inside the ISS Service Module.

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    Results/More Information

    Prediction of resistance of space technology materials to microbiological factor and development of recommendations to mitigate the risk of microbiological damage. Assessment of impact of cyclic changes of the Solar activity to characteristics of bacterial and fungus flora with regard to factors of phenotypic and genotypic variability, resistance factors and aggressive properties. Assessment of fundamental capability to maintain viability of microorganisms on long-term space exposure (as compared with the Earth-to-Mars flight).

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    Related Web Sites
  • Energia - Science Research on the ISS Russian Segment
  • Coordinating Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency [Russian]

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    Publications

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    Ground Based Results Publications

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    ISS Patent Publications

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    Images

    imageBiorisk KM kit.


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    imageBiorisk MCB container.


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    imageISS028-E-018265 (21 July 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Expedition 28 flight engineer, works with a Biorisk-MSN experiment container in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station


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    Information provided by the investigation team to the ISS Program Scientist's Office.
    If updates are needed to the summary please contact JSC-ISS-Program-Science-Group. For other general questions regarding space station research and technology, please feel free to call our help line at 281-244-6187 or e-mail at JSC-ISS-Payloads-Helpline.
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