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Company Overview

• SpacePharma R&D Israel Ltd. is the subsidiary of the Swiss company SpacePharma SA which was established in April 2012. Over $10M investment so far.

• Founded by former Heads of the Israeli Satellite and Intelligence Units.

•Unique multidisciplinary team of experienced and passionate space and science experts. 18 employees, senior satellite SW & HW developers and operators, 5 PhDs and 5 engineers.

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SP SA(Switzerland)

SP R&D(Israel)

SA Inc.(U.S.A)

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Why Microgravity?Microgravity provides disruptive environment which enhances andimproves a research organization’s ability to discover new drugs and materials at a faster pace

Differential assembly of molecular structures in μg Examples of successful research endeavors in μg

Mission: Microgravity for AllSpacePharma provides simplified, accessible, affordable, end-to-endmicrogravity solutions for researchers that can be controlled in near real-time

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Researcher builds procedure

Researcher controls experiments and

downloads results

SpacePharma places lab in μg platform

SpacePharmacustomizes lab for

research needs

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Vaccine

Development

Tissue

Engineering

3D Cell

Culturing

Plant

biology

Solidification

Extending

Shelf-

life

Cancer

Research

Drug

Polymorph

Aging

Study

Gene

Expression

Colloidal

Chemistry

Drug

Delivery Stem

Cells

Crystallization

Basic

Research

WHAT DOES SP PROVIDE?Capabilities for Enabling Microgravity Research

• Support multiple applications

• Accessible

• Multiple platforms

• Remote controlled

• Affordable

• End-to-end service

App = Microfluidic Chip = Customer’s Research

OS+HW = µGnify

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SpacePharma Satellite and Lab

DIDO2 Satellite Nexus Lab currently in space

3U Cubesat (30x10x10 cm , 4.5 kg), Carrying SPmg Lab

Fully functional and executing experiments

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SpacePharma Control Station: Courgenay, Switzerland

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Scientist front end Enables remote controlled microgravity experiments from anywhere

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SpacePharma controlled μg segments

Parabolic FlightSub-Orbital

Oct 2016

International Space Station (ISS)

Nov 2017

Satellite Labs

Feb 2017

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PSLV Launch, Feb. 15, 2017

First ever commercial cube-set for microgravity research

Successful Satellite Deployment DIDO2

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Orbital A8 Launch, Nov. 11, 2017

Cygnus docking to the ISS 2017

First ever remote lab on the ISS

Successful Nexus Lab Integration with ISS

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Self assembly, short peptide using Nexus

Control – 1G Image from SP Satellite

Scientific collaboration with Prof E. Gazit’s lab, Tel Aviv University

Contact:

Candice Hovell, PhD

Head of Research and Development

Hovell.Candice@space4p.com

Space4p.com