Investigating effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body & helping to understand ageing, osteoporosis, balance disorders, and loss of muscle

Crowdsourced experiments run on the ISS

Upgrading telemedicine networks

Goal of the EuroMedNet project was to upgrade the existing SHARED telemedicine network toward an operational network by introducing a Telemedicine Operation Centre (TOC) and by upgrading the stations in order to have them remotely controllable. This together with the introduction of the necessary tools allowed services information access, booking, automatic scheduling and communications set-up and confidentiality of data.

Delivery of high-bandwidth applications, enhancing school curriculums

Earth and Space Multimedia systems Enhancements and Extensions

Disaster Relief and Emergency Management

Europe’s own Global Navigation Satellite System

A wide range of activities from elementary schools to universities, using space as a learning, teaching and training context

Inspiring and enabling entrepeneurs to turn space-connected ideas into successful commercial businesses

Food production in space presented to pupils via a live ISS link

An illumination test was performed by Paolo Nespoli in connection with the ‘Greenhouse in Space’ education project on 26 December 2010. This is an education project where the concept of fresh food production in space is related to the biology and science curriculums of 12 to 14 year olds through film and ISS live link activities.