Information on SIL and partners

About The Space Innovation Lab
The Space Innovation Lab is part of a global network of Space Innovation Labs that have been created through a partnership between Metavisionaries (UK) and Space Applications Services (BE). The aim of the partnership is to promote the scientific, industrial, and educational application of the Metaverse and cooperate on related space knowledge transfer.
More information about the Space Innovation Lab and the researchers can be found here: 

Space Applications Services (SpaceApps) is an independent Belgian company founded in 1987, with offices in Europe (Belgium and the Netherlands) and a subsidiary, Aerospace Applications North America, in Houston, Texas (USA). With a strong focus on R&D, the company collaborates with global partners to develop innovative products, systems and solutions, while providing services to the aerospace and security markets and related industries. The company’s expertise spans various segments, including robotics and AI, flight and ground systems, crewed and autonomous spacecraft, mission control centres and information systems, payload integration and operations.

Through the ICE Cubes Service, SpaceApps provides fast, direct and affordable access to space for research, technology and education, on a commercial basis. The end-to-end service facilitates a frequent and regular ‘launch-and-return’ capability to/from the International Space Station, and offers a unique real-time interaction capability. To date, over 30 payloads, devices and experiments have been successfully flown to the ISS, and operated on board the station. Key markets include health and life sciences, materials, agrifood, and technology.

The ICE Cubes Facility (ICF), located in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station (ISS), is a versatile commercial research platform designed to facilitate experiments in microgravity, through an innovative “plug-and-play” approach. Launched in 2018 by SpaceApps in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the platform hosts research payloads (experiment cubes) of various sizes, equipped with data and power connections, allowing remote monitoring and control via a dedicated ground interface.