The development of the hardware for studying biological clock systems under microgravity conditions,using scorpions as animal models |
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| Institution: | 1. Kayser Italia S.r.l., Livorno, Italy;2. EADS Space Transportation GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany;3. European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands;4. Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;5. Gravitational Physiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany;6. Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt;1. Center for Physiological Medicine, Institute of Physiology, Medical University in Graz, Harrachgasse 21, Graz 8010, Austria;2. Cologne, Germany;1. QUIT Group, Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pavia, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy;2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo IV, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy;1. Applied Modelling and Computation Group, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK;2. Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK;1. Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;2. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;3. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent System, China;4. The Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, China;5. Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, China;1. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico;2. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Abstract: | The study of internal clock systems of scorpions in weightless conditions is the goal of the SCORPI experiment. SCORPI was selected for flight on the International Space Station (ISS) and will be mounted in the European facility BIOLAB, the European Space Agency (ESA) laboratory designed to support biological experiments on micro-organisms, cells, tissue, cultures, small plants and small invertebrates. This paper outlines the main features of a breadboard designed and developed in order to allow the analysis of critical aspects of the experiment. It is a complete tool to simulate the experiment mission on ground and it can be customised, adapted and tuned to the scientific requirements. The paper introduces the SCORPI-T experiment which represents an important precursor for the success of the SCORPI on BIOLAB. The capabilities of the hardware developed show its potential use for future similar experiments in space. |
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