Additional Cold Storage
During 2007, additional cold stowage and transportation options will become available on the station, including:
- MERLIN (Microgravity Experiment Research Locker/ Incubator, +37°C to -15°C) and
- GLACIER (General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator, –80°C to –180°C).
As of June 11, 2009, MERLIN was being used aboard the station, "for cold storage of crew food and drink."
As of October 2012, another GLACIER freezer was manifested to be transported to the ISS on SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services mission no. 1.
Read more about this topic: Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer For ISS
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