SERVICES

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. 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.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

  • Industry-Standard Quality Assurances Applied to Space: our proprietary Rhodium QuIC Space (Quality, Industry Compatible 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:

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

  • Space Access Agreements: Commercial Services Provider to NASA, Dept. of Defense, private space stations, Intuitive Machines, and other space-based platforms for rapid access to space and the Lunar surface

  • Leading Space Biotech: Programmatic verticals in biomanufacturing, regenerative medicine, pharmaceuticals, and agritech

  • High-Throughput Space Flight Hardware: Our portfolio of proven, NASA 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 >35 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

SERVICES OVERVIEW

Mission-Specific Scientific Consulting

  • Directly collaborate with researchers to accurately and fully translate lab protocols into a flight-feasible space operations and timelines

  • Provide guidance on appropriate levels of industry-standard quality assurances to ensure pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight activities meet commercialization standards

  • Provide direct teaming support to guide and write proposals that utilize Rhodium Scientific services and flight hardware

  • Provide critical payload processing support and facilities, including hands-on sample load into flight hardware at the client lab or launch site

  • Provide project compliance and proper documentation for NASA payload safety reviews and launch vehicle requirements

Spaceflight Hardware Portfolio  

  • Identify, assess, and match appropriate hardware with researcher-specific needs through project-specific requirements and timelines

  • Provide researchers a flight hardware portfolio that includes science hardware purposed to fill gaps in research capacity

  • Maintain a database of science results from previous missions and mission success rates for researchers and funding agencies to make predictions and assessments for science outcomes and trends

Project Commercialization Services

  • Collaborate with research teams during project design phases to ensure the experiments are conducted with proper industry quality control standards (i.e. GLP, cGMP, FDA)

  • Ensure risk mitigation through protocols designed to safeguard the science mission by completing thorough document reviews and proper articulation of science requirements to NASA mission planning teams/flight crews

  • Subject matter expertise support to file mission-related patents and publications