Sponsors & Supporters
DLR is the Federal Republic of Germany's research centre for aeronautics and space. They conduct research and development activities in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and digitalisation. The German Space Agency at DLR plans and implements the national space programme on behalf of the federal government.
The Luxembourg Space Agency romotes the commercial space sector in Luxembourg by providing support to the space industry, fostering new and existing businesses, developing human resources, offering access to financial solutions and supporting academic learning and research.
Their mission is: To enable and expand research and commercial applications in microgravity. They believe in the enormous benefits that microgravity brings to industries such as pharma, biotech, advanced materials and electronics. By offering a one-stop-shop for any service in microgravity, they make it accessible to any industry.
As the oldest national and large physical society, they support the transfer of knowledge in physics with conferences, events and publications and open a window on physics to all curious people with special projects and programs.
The activities of the institute are in the field of microelectronics and computer engineering. They cover the areas of conception, design and evaluation of architectures and integrated mixed-signal or digital circuits (microchips) as well as methods and tools for computer-aided design (electronic design automation (EDA)).
The Institute of Plant Genetics investigates different aspects of plant molecular biology. It divides into the Sections Molecular Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Molecular Biology & Plant Proteomics, and Plant Genomics.
EC Sense develops, manufactures and distributes gas sensors and sensor modules for a wide range of applications, from air quality changes to gas warning systems. Example applications are Indoor Air Quality, Smart Home, Outdoor Air Quality, Environmental Protection, Industrial Gas Monitoring, Fire Protection, Industrial 4.0 and IoT applications. We are happy to receive a discount on their oxygen sensors used in our experiment!
Astradis Elektronik is a distributor specialized on Raspberry Pis and IoT. They provided us with our main computer (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W) and cameras.
DruckWege is a Dutch manufacturer who produces and provides UV resin for 3D printing. We are happy to get the required resin for our project from them!
Formlabs is the largest supplier of professional stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers in the world. They provided us with our 3D printed biochamber and technical area.
Novogene is a leading provider of genomic services and solutions with cutting edge NGS and bioinformatics expertise and the largest sequencing capacity in the world. They help us by doing the RNA-Sequencing for our experiment.