Download or read book Life Science in Space: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite written by Enkui Duan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the life science experiments in a space microgravity environment conducted on board the SJ-10 recoverable satellite, which was launched on April 6th 2016 and recovered on April 18th 2016. It covers 10 scientific projects in radiation biology, gravitational biology and biotechnology that were selected from ~100 proposals from various institutions in China and around the world. Primarily exploring the rhythm of life in a space microgravity environment, all of the experiments – conducted on nine payloads of the SJ-10 satellite – have never been previously conducted in the respective fields. In addition, the book provides extensive information on the mission’s execution, data collection, and scientific outcomes.