Section 3: the Hardware
This section describes the facilities used for biological experiments on sounding rockets. The modules are summarised in Table 3.1. There are two main series: the TEXUS experiment modules (TEM) essentially flown on TEXUS, and the cell-in-space (CIS) modules flown on MASER.
Table 3.1. Modules used for biological experiments on sounding rockets, in chronological order of first flight (see also Table 1.1).
Instrument Topic Flight
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TEM 06-5 Electro-cell-fusion TEXUS 11,13,17, 19,21,25,28
TEM 06-11 Electro-cell-fusion, genetransfection TEXUS 14B,22, 26
TEM 06-15 Developmental biology TEXUS 17, MASER 3
TEM KT (Kayser-Threde) Graviperception in plants TEXUS 18, 19
TEM 06-13 Free-flow electrophoresis TEXUS 18, 20
CIS-1 Cellular interactions, signal transduction MASER 3
TEM 06-16 Graviperception in plants TEXUS 21, 25, 28
TEM BIO (Kayser-Threde) Graviperception in plants TEXUS 23
TEM 06-19 Graviperception in swimming unicells TEXUS 23, 26, 27
TEM 04-1 (06-13) Free-flow electrophoresis TEXUS 24
CIS-2 Fertilisation, signal transduction MASER 4
TEM 04-2 Continuous flow electrophoresis TEXUS 27, 28
TEM 06-5 Gravitaxis of flagellated cells TEXUS 28, 29, 30
CIS-3 Electro-cell-fusion, signal transduction, MASER 5
fertilisation
TEM 06-5M Signal transduction MAXUS 1B
TEM 06-21 Electro-cell-fusion TEXUS 30, 32
CIS-4 Developmental biology, signal transduction MASER 6
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