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Cold Atom Laboratory

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The Cold Atom Lab is a facility for the study of ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). It enables research in a temperature regime and force free environment that is inaccessible to terrestrial laboratories.

Type

Instrument

Launch

May 21, 2018

Location

International Space Station

Objective

Study quantum phenomena

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