Rhodium Scientific, as America's first commercial space biotech company and DARPA's in-space biomanufacturing performer, we've created the scientific path to increase biomanufacturing in space through: 1) the Rhodium Space BioBankTM and 2) Zephyr, a Biomanufacturing orbital to Earth-return spaceflight vehicle in partnership with Intuitive Machines. The Rhodium Space Biobank currently contains over 1,500 specimens of spaceflight-flown samples. Rhodium will continuously bank biological and advanced material space samples on every rocket launching to the ISS from now until 2032. For the Zephyr vehicle, Rhodium is responsible for 100kg of Biomanufacturing payload design, science inputs, and client pipeline. We are in the critical design phase, looking for input and collaboration from biomanufacturing stakeholders, miniaturized (robust) analytics, and an AI science component These near-term solutions will enable the rise, access and advancement of commercial bioscience in space.

Pioneer Labs builds technologies for a green human civilization—starting with Mars. I’ll describe our first product, a refrigerator-sized device that turns Martian regolith, water, and atmosphere into bioplastic, and how we’re getting there by generating large public datasets of microbial phenotypes to guide engineering.

Space is among the harshest and least hospitable environments for humans. Every human biological system is affected by the space environment. The biological stress has a deleterious impact on health and physical capabilities, and the extreme conditions and isolation take a significant toll on mental performance and behavior. By 2040, hundreds of people will be in space at any given time, and more than 80% of those are predicted to be private citizens; for the reliability, safety, health, and enjoyment of those private participants, new solutions and therapeutics are needed to maintain health and wellbeing.