Upcoming Flights

ITA continues to fly convenient and affordable microgravity hardware on a wide range of space flights from sounding rockets to the Space Shuttle and orbital space stations. Our current manifest includes:
 

STS-107 April 2002
ISS-13A, 4th Quarter 2002
ISS-1J, 3rd Quarter 2003
Kistler K-1, 2002

STS-107, currently scheduled for launch in April 2002will carry ITA's CIBX-2 commercial payload with automated space processing hardware.

Reservations are now being taken.

You can fly a microgravity experiment in ITA's payload on the Space Shuttle for as little as 3,000 - 7,000 $US. Flying with ITA provides the most cost effective way to carry out experiments on the Shuttle in the following areas:

• Protein Crystal Growth (5 separate techniques) with or without video
• Cell and Plant Biology
• Microencapsulation of Drugs
• Collagen Studies
• Fluid Sciences
• Student Space Experiments

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Kistler Aerospace is planning to launch the world's first reuseable space system in 2001 from Australia. ITA has an agreement to fly microgravity research experiments on their system.

ITA has flown one mission from the new Alcantra Spaceport in Brazil on the new Brazilian VS-30 sounding rocket (an upgrade of the Sonda-III rocket that has flown successfully 30 times). It provides approximately 4 minutes of microgravity. Additional flights are planned. See our news page for more information.

 

Commercial Free Flyers consist of flight-proven launch vehicles and orbital recovery/reentry capsules.

USCORP (Commercial Capsule)

Turn-key flights onboard USCORP will be offered by ITA. USCORP will be the first commercially developed research orbiting and re-entry system for commercial and microgravity experiments. USCORP will fill the gap of the Space Shuttle and other vehicles.

ITA has completed a wide variety of commercial missions on the Shuttle, Mir, Sounding Rockets, Aircraft, etc. Please click here to see our past missions.

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