Haven-1 Lab
Enabling innovation in microgravity
The Haven-1 Lab is the world’s first microgravity research, development, and manufacturing platform on a commercial space station.
The Haven-1 Lab is the world’s first microgravity research, development, and manufacturing platform on a commercial space station.
Full ISS EXPRESS rack capacity
Ten Middeck Locker Equivalent (MLE) payload slots available for research, tech demonstration, and manufacturing in microgravity with 100 W of continuous power per slot.
Payload operations
The system is operated by the Haven-1 astronaut crew and can be remotely commanded and monitored via Starlink's gigabit-speed Internet.
Product return
Deliver and return products and samples from space via a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Partner network
Vast's partners are some of the foremost experts in the development of microgravity payloads.
PARTNER NETWORK
Yuri
Yuri ScienceTaxi
Yuri’s ScienceTaxi can accommodate up to 38 experiment units, known as ScienceShells. The ScienceTaxi will provide scientists with a powerful tool for studying the effects of microgravity on various biological systems, enabling a wide range of experiments to be conducted in the Haven-1 Lab.
PARTNER NETWORK
Redwire
Redwire ADSEP4
Redwire’s Advanced Space Experiment Processor 4 (ADSEP4) is a fully automated, multi-use processing facility that is used to conduct a variety of life and physical science research. The facility also supports small-batch biotechnology production in microgravity, with a capacity of up to four sample processing cassettes for pharmaceutical research and manufacturing.
PARTNER NETWORK
Interstellar Lab
Interstellar Lab Eden 1.0
Interstellar Lab’s Eden 1.0 is a plant growth unit designed to conduct research on plants in a microgravity environment on a space station. Installing Eden 1.0 inside the Haven-1 Lab will allow Interstellar Lab to conduct research that will measure and understand the impact of microgravity on plant growth.
PARTNER NETWORK
Exobiosphere
Exobiosphere Orbital High Throughput Drug Screening Device (OHTS)
Exobiosphere will install its Orbital High Throughput Drug Screening Device (OHTS) in the Haven-1 Lab to conduct microgravity experiments to uncover cellular behaviors that are not observable under Earth’s gravity. Experiment results will provide pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies with insights to create therapeutics to improve human life on Earth and in space.
PARTNER NETWORK
JAMSS
JAMSS
Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS) will install a multi-purpose payload facility that accommodates microgravity experiments and small payload modules. These sub-payloads include devices for colloidal photonic crystallization (a process for developing advanced optical materials), interfaces for commercial merchandise items, and many other applications.
available
Reserved for crew partners
Reserved for crew partners
Reserved for crew partners
Reserved for crew partners
Lab specifications
Each payload slot can hold up to 30 kg (66 lbs), is provided with up to 100 W of continuous power, and has unlimited access to both an Ethernet data connection and Starlink high-speed internet.
*Middeck lockers can be combined