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AAH, The Latest Development in Microgravity Animal Research
Technical Paper
2005-01-2784
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The Advanced Animal Habitat (AAH) represents the next generation of Space Station based animal research facilities. Building upon previously developed flight hardware and experience, the AAH offers greatly enhanced system capabilities and performance. The design focuses upon the creation of a robust and flexible platform capable of supporting present and future experimental needs. A modular packaging and distributed control architecture leads to increased system adaptability and expandability. The baseline configuration includes group housing capability for up to six rats with automated food and water delivery as well as waste collection. Animals are continuously monitored with three cameras during both day and night cycles. The animals can be accessed while on-orbit through the Life Sciences Glovebox to perform a wide variety of experimental protocols.
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Iverson, J., Lee, M., and Emmerich, J., "AAH, The Latest Development in Microgravity Animal Research," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-2784, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-2784.Also In
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