Moissl-Eichinger, Christine and Pukall, Ruediger and Probst, Alexander J. and Stieglmeier, Michaela and Schwendner, Petra and Mora, Maximilian and Barczyk, Simon and Bohmeier, Maria and Rettberg, Petra (2013) Lessons Learned from the Microbial Analysis of the Herschel Spacecraft during Assembly, Integration, and Test Operations. ASTROBIOLOGY, 13 (12). pp. 1125-1139. ISSN 1531-1074, 1557-8070
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Understanding microbial diversity in spacecraft assembly clean rooms is of major interest with respect to planetary protection considerations. A coordinated screening of different clean rooms in Europe and South America by three German institutes [Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ), and the Institute of Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg] took place during the assembly, test, and launch operations of the Herschel spacecraft in 2006-2009. Through this campaign, we retrieved critical information regarding the microbiome within these clean rooms and on the Herschel spacecraft, which served as a model for upcoming ESA mission preparations. This lessons learned document summarizes and discusses the data we obtained during this sampling campaign. Additionally, we have taken the opportunity to create a database that includes all 16S rRNA gene sequences ever retrieved from molecular and cultivable diversity studies of spacecraft assembly clean rooms to compare the microbiomes of US, European, and South American facilities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CLEAN ROOM ENVIRONMENTS; RIBOSOMAL-RNA; PLANETARY PROTECTION; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; SP NOV.; DIVERSITY; BACTERIAL; FACILITY; MARS; COMMUNITIES; Planetary protection; Spacecraft assembly facility; Microbial diversity; Herschel |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie (Archaeenzentrum) > Prof. Dr. Michael Thomm |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2020 10:47 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2020 05:24 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/15569 |
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