Lux Labs’ Material is Currently in Orbit

On December 5, 2019, the SpaceX CRS-19 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Airforce Station in Florida with Lux Labs sample film on board. Through the partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Lux Labs developed an experiment to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). On December 18, 2019, Astronauts aboard the ISS conducted an experiment that examines the fundamental properties of co-extruded nano-scale layers of polymer materials when uniaxially stretched. The absence of gravity at the ISS will allow us to test how multilayer polymer formations and crystallization are affected by gravity. Not only will this experiment help us to create a more durable film, it will also benefit the broader polymer industry by advancing our knowledge of the physics behind nano-scale polymer formation and crystallization once we publicly release our results. We are very excited to complete the study once our samples return from the ISS later this year.

Lux Labs thanks our operating partners Zin Technologies and PolymerPlus and to CASIS for funding support. More to come!