What is "ICE Cubes"? – An end-to-end service to send your research and technology to space

ICE Cubes is an end-to-end service providing fast, easy and reliable access to space. Since the installation of the ICE Cubes Facility on the station in 2018, the service have been used by a variety of customers from around the world, producing numerous scientific, educational and artistic results. Click here to see examples of use as well as areas that benefit from microgravity environment.

The ICE Cubes Facility is, so to speak, a test-bed and a playground, an in-space laboratory for microgravity research, equipped with electrical outlets, standard interfaces and Wi-Fi, hosted inside Columbus, the ESA module of the ISS. The ICE Cubes facility can accommodate payloads, modules and instruments of different shapes and sizes (~up to 38 (W) x 28 (H) x 58 (D) cm). The experiment cubes/modules are built for easy “Plug & Play" inside the ICE Cubes Facility or can be adapted to be mounted external to the facility, according to your requirements.
In addition, the AI-Box and Media Set can be used either separately or combination with other ICE Cubes payloads, to enhance the possibilities inside the station.

The ICE Cubes Service was initiated by Space Applications Services, an independent Belgian company established in 1987, with a subsidiary in Houston, USA, called Aerospace Applications North America.

Message from Space Applications Services to Asia!
“Looking forward to working with companies and organizations across different industries in Japan and Asia, to enable new applications and services for both space and non-space markets."

We support you in every step of the process, from ideation, design, feasibility study, development and testing to interfacing with space agencies, obtaining all necessary certifications, overall management, booking rocket launches, and operation in space, as well as retrieval of the payload if necessary. Experts with diverse backgrounds and experience are available to provide the support needed for easy access to space, for a wide range of users. Read more about our services and facilities.

All the necessary equipment is in place, waiting for your research, technology, educational or artistic ideas to be conducted on the ISS. How will you take advantage of the microgravity environment of space? For example, when you go to space, living things may behave in ways that are unthinkable on Earth. Matter will have a regular structure, unaffected by gravity. With ICE Cubes, you can acquire all kinds of results unaffected by gravity, so why not add space as an option to your business problem solving and creativity?
Read more about the advantages of microgravity here.

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