OUR SERVICES

SERVICES OFFERED BY RHODIUM SCIENTIFIC

Rhodium Scientific’s Commitment to Success:

  • Central to Rhodium’s success is a commitment to implement unprecedented, industry-standard quality assurances into every spaceflight mission and conduct space biotech at the speed of business, a differentiator from the traditional space industry. Each Rhodium mission ensures the optimization of pre-flight tests, accurate translation of benchtop procedures to the space lab, and precise on-orbit operations. Our repeatable standardized processes mitigate risk and ensure post-flight results represent a true space environment, and not user/hardware error.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

  • Industry-Standard Quality Assurances Applied to Space: Rhodium’s Quality, Industry Compatible (QuIC) Space Process™ uses industry-standard protocols to enable sample replicates, analytical fidelity, reliable ground controls, and an increased return on investment

  • Science-First Approach: “Scientists working with Scientists”-We are a team of life science subject matter experts leading the mission integration process to ensure science is prioritized and risk is mitigated

  • Turn-Key Mission Support: From first-time spaceflight to scale-up programs in space, Rhodium supports all steps of a mission from concept translation to post-flight analytics

  • Space Science at the Speed of Business: Our agreements allow for rapid launch sequences to support biotech timelines and the academic calendar

DIFFERENTIATORS:

  • ONE YEAR Mission Completion: Rhodium is the only commercial space provider to complete turn-key missions in a ~one-year timeline, Space Biotech at the Speed of Business

  • Space Access Agreements: Commercial Services Provider to NASA, Dept. of Defense, private space stations, Intuitive Machines for rapid access to space and the Lunar surface, and multiple National Laboratories including the ISS U.S. National Laboratory

  • Leading Space Biotech: Programmatic verticals in Biomanufacturing, Regenerative Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, and AgriTech

  • High-Throughput Space Flight Hardware: Our portfolio of proven, flight-certified hardware, includes the first high-throughput Lunar and Martian gravity centrifuge, capable of testing 200+ samples on a single mission

PAST PERFORMANCE:

  • Successfully executed and supported >25 Science & Technology space missions for academia, STEM, industry, DoD (6 DTRA, 4 DARPA, 3 FFRDC National Labs, 2 Air Force Academy)

  • Spaceflight certification of >15 Bioscience Facilities & Hardware: Real-time ISS operations from Rhodium’s mission control have ensured hardware and astronaut crew time functionality

  • Prime Contractor for 3 Successful DoD Prototype Space Processes (awarded OTA’s): Biomanufacturing, Regenerative Medicine, and Synthetic Biology

  • Establish and operate National & International Space Launch Programs in a 12-month cycle to increase the space biotech user base, enable non-traditional researchers to conduct ISS missions, and train future workforce

DETAILED OFFERINGS BY RHODIUM SCIENTIFIC

Mission-Specific Scientific Consulting

  • Directly team with researchers to accurately and fully translate lab protocols into a flight-feasible project using appropriate hardware and operations.

  • Provide guidance on appropriate levels of industry-standard quality control and good laboratory practices (GLP) to pre-flight testing procedures, in-flight activities, and post-flight analytics to ensure the highest science standards.

  • Provide direct teaming support to guide and write proposals.

  • Provide on-site scientific support during critical project phases including sample load into flight hardware at the client lab and launch site.

  • Provide project compliance and proper documentation for NASA payload safety reviews and flight manifest requirements.

Hardware Brokering  

  • Identify, assess, and match appropriate hardware with researcher-specific needs through project-specific user agreements.

  • Provide consulting to implementation partner/payload developer teams for scientific-relevant modifications of existing hardware that addresses unmet science needs and expands hardware usability.

  • Provide researchers an additional flight hardware portfolio (not listed through implementation partner directory) that includes low-cost hardware purposed to fill gaps in research capacity.

  • Maintain a database of science results from previous missions with preliminary data and mission success rates for researchers and funding agencies to use and review.

Project Commercialization Services

  • Work with research teams during project design phases to ensure the experiments are conducted with proper industry quality control standards where applicable.

  • Provide risk mitigation services to safeguard project science through document review and proper articulation of science requirements to NASA mission planners/flight crews.

  • Assist with securing proper post-flight analyses with proper quality controls to achieve full commercial-value of a resulting research product.