NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Scientists and payload developers can get more information on International Space Station research facilities by contacting the ISS Payloads Office or at 281-244-6187.

To view the full facilities catalog click here.

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Small Hardware | ISS Rack | ISS External Rack | ISS Subrack | ISS Stowage | Middeck Locker | Middeck Locker Insert

Small Hardware

• Actiwatch (Actiwatch)
• BCA (BioServe Culture Apparatus)
• BRIC-Opti (Biological Research in Canisters for OptiCells^?)
• CBPD (Human Research Facility Continuous Blood Pressure Device)
• HGD-PFD (Hand Grip Dynamometer - Pinch Force Dynamometer )
• Holter (Human Research Facility Holter Monitor)
• KFT (Kennedy Space Center Fixation Tube)
• PCBA (Portable Clinical Blood Analyzer - i-STAT)
• RAM (Radiation Area Monitor)
• TEPC (Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter)
• UMS (Urine Monitoring System)
• Veggie (Vegetable Production System)

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ISS Rack

• BioLab (Biological Experiment Laboratory)
• CIR (Combustion Integrated Rack)
• EDR (European Drawer Rack)
• EPM (European Physiology Module)
• ETC (European Transportation Carrier)
• EXPRESS_Rack_1 (EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station Rack 1)
• EXPRESS_Rack_2A (EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station Rack 2 - Active Rack Isolation System)
• EXPRESS_Rack_3A (EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station Rack 3 - Active Rack Isolation System)
• EXPRESS_Rack_5 (EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station Rack 5)
• EXPRESS_Rack_6 (EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station Rack 6)
• FIR (Fluids Integrated Rack)
• FSL (Fluid Science Laboratory)
• HRF-1 (Human Research Facility-1)
• HRF-2 (Human Research Facility-2)
• MARES (Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System)
• MELFI (Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS)
• MSG (Microgravity Science Glovebox)
• MSRR-1 (Materials Science Research Rack-1)
• Ryutai (Ryutai Experiment Rack)
• Saibo (Saibo Experiment Rack)
• WORF (Window Observational Research Facility)

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ISS External Rack

• Columbus-EPF (Columbus - External Payload Facility)
• ELC (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station (EXPRESS) Logistics Carrier)
• EuTEF (European Technology Exposure Facility)
• JEM-EF (Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility)
• Solar (Sun Monitoring on the External Payload Facility of Columbus)

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ISS Subrack

• ABRS (Advanced Biological Research System)
• APCF (Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility)
• ARCTIC (ARCTIC Refrigerator/Freezer)
• BSTC (Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller)
• BTR (Biotechnology Temperature Refrigerator)
• BXF (Boiling Experiment Facility)
• CB (Clean Bench)
• CBEF (Cell Biology Experiment Facility)
• CGBA (Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus)
• CPBF (Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility)
• CRIM-M (Commercial Refrigerator Incubator Module - Modified)
• EMCS (European Modular Cultivation System)
• FPEF (Fluid Physics Experiment Facility)
• FWED (Flywheel Exercise Device)
• IPU (Image Processing Unit)
• MDS_Facility (Mice Drawer System Facility)
• MVIS (Microgravity Vibration Isolation Subsystem)
• PASC (Portable Astroculture Chamber)
• PCG-STES (Protein Crystal Growth - Single Locker Thermal Enclosure System)
• PCRF (Protein Crystallization Research Facility)
• PFS (Pulmonary Function System)
• PGB (Portable Glovebox)
• RC (Refrigerated Centrifuge)
• SCOF (Solution Crystallization Observation Facility)
• SLAMMD (Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device)
• Ultrasound (Human Research Facility Ultrasound on the International Space Station)

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ISS Stowage

• ABS (Autonomous Biological System)
• ADSEP (ADvanced Space Experiment Processor)
• Astro_Garden (Astro_Garden)
• BRIC (Biological Research in Canisters)
• CellCult (Cell Culturing)
• GAP-FPA (Group Activation Pack-Fluid Processing Apparatus)
• GCF (Granada Crystallization Facility)

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Middeck Locker

• ADF (Avian Development Facility)
• AEM (Animal Enclosure Module)
• GLACIER (General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator)
• MERLIN (Microgravity Experiment Research Locker Incubator)
• T-CGS (T-Cell Growth System)

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Middeck Locker Insert

• Biotube (Biotube)
• GN2 (Kennedy Space Center Gaseous Nitrogen Freezer)

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Information Provided and Updated by the ISS Program Scientist's Office