Yossi Yamin, cofounder and CEO of SpacePharma, wanted to transform the way space is used for life science and pharmaceutical research. SpacePharma’s solution was to develop free-flying, miniaturized laboratories that would allow companies to place real experiments in microgravity—and its success led Fast Company to deem the startup one of the “Most Innovative Companies.”16 The startup’s smallsats facilitate a variety of testing in space via free flyers or the ISS, including tests focused on protein crystallization, fluid physics, microbiology, and 3D cell culturing, e.g., organ-on-chips and
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