Astrobiology Small-Payload Laboratory for Survivability of Living Organisms.

The manufacturing unit is a Portable Biological Lab System® (PBLS®). Three micro-fluidic modules work together to combine spores, DNA and micro-organisms into the prompted cocktail. The molecules have been loaded into the Deli Platter in an air dried state to impart a condition of stasis, and are rehydrated upon prompting using a growth medium, which causes viable cells to resume growth and reproduction.

The PBLS® contains a combination of reservoirs, micro-fluidic channels, sensors, and valves that control the flow of growth media to the biological specimens in the micro-wells. The growth and quality of the biological specimens is measured via optical absorbance and density, a technique inherited from the open-source PharmaSat mission.

Shout out to Olaf Blomerus for creating the UV-map!