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Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF)
04.03.09
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Facility/Payload Overview

Brief Facility Summary

Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility is an incubator with artificial gravity generator. CBEF is housed in the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack, along with the Clean Bench (CB).

Facility Manager(s)

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

    • Co-Facility Manager(s)

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    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

    • Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility is an incubator with artificial gravity generator in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Kibo, on board the International Space Station (ISS).


    • CBEF is located within the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack with the Clean Bench (CB) subrack facility.

    Description

    Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility, located in the Saibo (living cell) Experiment Rack. The Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) is used for various life science experiments; such as, cultivating cells and plants in the JEM. CBEF consists of an incubator and control equipment for CBEF control and communication. The incubator unit consists of a microgravity compartment and a 1G compartment. The 1G compartment has a centrifuge that can control gravity from 0.1 to 2.0 G for gravity contrast experiments with the microgravity compartment. The CBEF incubator can control temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide concentration for cultivation of cells and plants.

    • Temperature: 15 - 40 degrees C

    • Humidity: 20 % to 80 % relative humidity

    • Carbon dioxide concentration: 0 to 10 percent by volume
    CBEF provides a standard canister with a common interface to the Biological Equipment Units (BEUs). Scientists can develop BEU easily with common interfaces of the standard canister. The BEU can receive power through a connector, transfer analog signal and video signals to the CBEF.

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    Operations

    Facility Operations

    Saibo, containing CBEF and other subrack facilities will be transported to the ISS in the JEM-ELM. Once the Kibo is attached to the ISS, Saibo will be transferred by the crew to a rack location inside the Kibo. After 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. All condition parameters of CBEF can be set or changed from the ground by the telemetry command or the experiment parameters can be preset with the user-program to be controlled automatically.

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    Results/More Information

    Information Pending

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    Availability

  • On-Board ISS

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    Related Web Sites
  • Cell Biology Experiment Facility

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    Publications

    Results Publications

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      Related Publications

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        Images

        imageCell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in the Saibo Rack, image courtesy of JAXA.
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        imageNASA image: ISS018-E-034090 (20 Feb. 2009) Astronaut Sandra Magnus, Expedition 18 flight engineer, uses a communication system near the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Image courtesy of NASA.
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        imageNASA image: ISS18-E-37097 Sandra Magnus in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) as she works with the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in support of the RadGene Experiment during Expedition 18.
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