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Space Tango Increases Biotechnology Data, Product Output Rate
LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 1, 2024) — Space Tango, a leading provider of automated solutions for microgravity research and manufacturing, is launching a new middeck locker facility on Northrop Grumman’s 21st Commercial Resupply Services Mission (NG-21). The Microgravity-based Automated Manufacturing and Bioprocessing Outpost (Mambo) provides a high throughput solution to enable in-space manufacturing capability.
Mambo is the next generation of Space Tango’s TangoLab architecture providing power, data, heat rejection, and mechanical interfaces with the International Space Station (ISS) ExPRESS Rack. The new architecture maintains Space Tango’s heritage of modularity and scalability while serving as a platform-agnostic solution. In comparison to the TangoLab, Mambo provides an expanded contiguous volume for microgravity experimentation, higher power allocation for use by experiments, improved heat rejection, and increased data and commanding capabilities.
“Space Tango has captured a market demand for additional investigation volume to accommodate increased data and product output for microgravity manufacturing,” said S. Sita Sonty, Chief Executive Officer at Space Tango. “Mambo is an automated next-generation facility that will enable existing investigations on the ISS today and operate as a supply chain pathfinder for TangoBox capabilities on future commercial space stations. With Mambo, we scale up.”
As a middeck locker architecture, Mambo is designed to host payload-specific sliding trays. Each automated investigation is attached to a compartmentalized tray; new trays can be installed at the end of each experiment cycle, allowing multiple researchers to use the facility during a single mission.
Space Tango has a proven flight heritage of over 270 investigations with over 50 ground control studies. Space Tango aims to increase the investigation and data throughput to facilitate customer commercialization roadmaps for human health applications. Advancing Space Tango’s next-generation capability eliminates production obstacles and permits on-orbit iteration crucial to commercially viable space-based manufacturing.
Mambo launches on NG-21 scheduled for no earlier than August 3rd at 11:28 a.m. ET. Space Tango will also deliver CubeLab investigations from the University of Notre Dame and Florida International University. Mambo investigations will launch on subsequent missions.
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