With facilities in Houston, TX, Alexandria VA and the Silicon Valley, Nanoracks initially worked with NASA to contract for no-cost laboratory research space on the ISS. The firm signed a contract with NASA in September 2009 and had their first laboratory on the Space Station in April 2010. Since 2010 NanoRacks has designed and built all 36 of the modular labs for the U.S. National Laboratory on the Space Station. As of February 2013, it had flown 70 payloads to the ISS and was contracted to fly 80 additional payloads. In 2012, Customers include European and Saudi space agencies, universities in the U.K. and Vietnam," and a variety of commercial companies and private interests. As of March 2014, NanoRacks has placed over 30 small satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO), with 50 more under contract and MOUs in place for 100 more. The largest planned satellite under contract is 53 kg (117 lb). NanoRacks is a sponsor of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, along with the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education. Facilities and labs Low-Earth orbit facilities NanoRacks facilities on the International Space Station (ISS) include: NanoRacks Platforms include both standard space-capable lab racks to provide power and data transfer capabilities as well as CubeLabs Modules experimental platforms. Several standard rack sizes are available to accommodate nanoscale research in microgravity experiments that require various amounts of rack volume.
