VOA常速英语:太空实验室：跟纸巾盒同样大小

An orbiting mini-lab is a new way for researchers to work in space.With little interference from earth gravity, cells and molecules behave differently.That helps researchers make discoveries in fields from medicine to agriculture.

Usually such experiments are conducted at the international space station or on parabolic airplane flights that have short bursts of weightlessness.Developed by an Israeli-Swiss firm called SpacePharma, the satellite mini-lab opens up new frontiers for research.

“SpacePharma provided the first ever design to launch a commercial satellite laboratory that now is available for many clients wherever there are in order to be able to carry out their own designed experiment in microgravity.And this is the new technology that we’re now proposing to the market in order to develop better drugs,better medicines, a better research and a better product for humanity.”

He explains how clients can remotely control scientific experiments anywhere from earth.“You are installing the software client location with the computer.He is playing with the barometers to be releasing sequencing of steps on how you would like to run the experiment.”

The clients receive data and images from the experiment, which can be run multiple times to test different reactions.Right now, the satellite contains four experiments.Next year, SpacePharma hopes to send up satellites that each can hold about 160 experiments.

Deborah Block, VOA News, Washington.