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Clean Bench (CB)
10.29.09
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Facility/Payload Overview

Brief Facility Summary

Clean Bench (CB) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility which is a glovebox with a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter and high performance optical microscope. CB is housed in the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack, along with the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF).

Facility Manager(s)

  • Nakamura Tai, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba-shi, Japan

    • Co-Facility Manager(s)

    Information Pending

    Facility Developer

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba-shi, Japan

    Sponsoring Agency

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

    Expeditions Assigned

    |17|18|19|20|21|22|

    Previous ISS Missions

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    Facility/Payload Description

    Facility Summary

    • Clean Bench (CB) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility which will provide a glovebox with a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter and a high performance optical microscope in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Kibo, on board the International Space Station (ISS).


    • CB is located within the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack with the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) subrack facility.

    Description

    Clean Bench (CB) is a JAXA subrack facility, located in the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack. The CB consists of two compartments; the Disinfection Chamber (DC) and the Operation Chamber (OC). Air circulated inside is kept clean by HEPA filters. Crew members operate the experiment materials with gloves from outside to prevent the ambient air contaminating. The CB also contains a specially-designed microscope in the OC, which can accommodate bright-field, phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy modes. The objective lens can be switched among following the four magnification levels 4X, 10X, 20X and 40X.

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    Operations

    Facility Operations

    Saibo, containing CB and other subrack facilities will be transported to the ISS in the JEM-ELM. After the Kibo is attached to the ISS, Saibo will be transferred by the crew to a rack location inside the Kibo. Once the rack is installed and checked out, the rack will be ready for subrack facility operations and will be operated as the science is scheduled. The CB microscope image and operation scene; microscope X,Y stage and microscope focus in the OC and the microscope mode (for example, from Phase Contrast to Fluorescence) and Fluorescence filter can be monitored and commanded simultaneously on the ground.

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    Results/More Information

    Information Pending

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    Availability

  • On-Board ISS

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    Related Web Sites
  • Clean Bench

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    Publications

    Results Publications

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      Related Publications

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        Images

        imageClean Bench (CB) in the Saibo Rack, image courtesy of JAXA.
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