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Space ‘freezer’ ready for shipment to Florida

25 March 2002

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Minus Eighty degrees Laboratory Freezer for the ISS (MELFI) flight model. MELFI will provide upto 80 kg cooling and storage capability of experiment samples on-board the International Space Station in four independent temperature-controlled dewars, fitted in an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR). Launch of the first flight unit is planned for January 2003, on shuttle flight STS-114, ISS Assembly flight ULF1.