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In 1985, the CBSE was designated as a NASA Research Partnership Center (RPC) with the goal to facilitate partnerships between government, industry and academia to create dual use technologies to benefit space exploration, other NASA missions, and life on Earth. The CBSE accomplished these goals through a variety of collaborative ground-based drug discovery programs and applied engineering projects. Designated in the Space Partnership Development Office, RPC’s provided a link between NASA and others to conduct research and develop products for space-related research. Examples of such research initiatives include: 1) drugs for DNA repair, immunity, and bone loss disorders that affect an astronaut’s health, 2) Biosensors for harmful pathogen detection 3) Thermal Carriers and 4) Cryogenic Freezers for cold stowage of certain samples.
The CBSE Engineering Division has been instrumental for over 15 years providing a variety of flight experiment systems necessary to perform such novel research. The design, development and fabrication of both the hardware and software systems has consistently exceeded NASA standards with no on-orbit failures to date on 42 shuttle flight missions. Click here for a list of flight mission patches.
Our history began supporting the microgravity protein crystal growth (PCG) program and has since been dramatically expanded to a full service organization supporting many other areas of Robotics, Instrumentation, Software/Hardware design and full-service support. With this designation, we are positioned to provide both science and engineering solutions for those interested in leveraging research that benefits both life on Earth and in space.
Click here for a list of available hardware:
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