{"id":49318,"date":"2025-04-21T22:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iss-resupply-mission-includes-expanded-drug-development-platform-by-redwire\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T22:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:02:39","slug":"iss-resupply-mission-includes-expanded-drug-development-platform-by-redwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iss-resupply-mission-includes-expanded-drug-development-platform-by-redwire\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS Resupply Mission Includes Expanded Drug-Development Platform by Redwire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched early Monday included new in-space drug development technology by <b>Redwire<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Redwire launched a high-volume industrial crystallizer that is capable of processing up to 200 times the volume of samples than its previous platform for in-space pharmaceutical development, PIL-BOX. Redwire said the goal is to turn insights from the PIL-BOX investigations into large-scale production for commercial applications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the 32nd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for NASA on April 21 on a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission carried 6,700 pounds of supplies to the ISS, including the new crystallizer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new crystallizer will undertake an experiment called \u201cGolden Balls\u201d to produce gold nanospheres in space, in what could be a first of its kind milestones. John Vellinger, Redwire\u2019s president of In-Space Industries, said that gold nanospheres could lead to early testing and diagnosis of cancer and other diseases, targeted drug delivery, and enhanced radiation and photothermal therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched early Monday included new in-space drug development technology by Redwire.&nbsp; Redwire launched a high-volume industrial crystallizer that is capable of processing up to 200 times the volume of samples than its previous platform for in-space pharmaceutical development, PIL-BOX. Redwire said the goal is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}