MICROGRAVITY & ACCESS TO SPACE

The frontier of human performance and emerging technology converges in one of the most unforgiving environments every encountered. Through Cambrian R&D we are pioneering a dedicated access to space program where human biology and emerging technologies are tested, adapted and evolved in space.

Take your research to space.

We'll handle the space part.

Cambrian is the only turnkey microgravity service provider in Australasia, an integrated pathway from parabolic flight to orbit, built so researchers can stay researchers. You bring the question. We bring the flight heritage, the payload engineering and the mission that gets it there.

Microgravity is a tool, not a destination. Cambrian works across the disciplines already using it to ask questions Earth-bound labs can't answer.

Medical & Biomedical
Cell behaviour, disease modelling and treatment response under conditions that ground-based 3D culture can’t reveal.

Botanicals & Soil
Plant and soil biology in altered gravity, from germination through to food security applications.

Biologicals
Microbial, cellular and organismal responses to microgravity, radiation and near-space exposure.

Materials Science
Crystallisation, processing and structural behaviour free from gravitational settling.

Four ways up, one point of entry

Every pathway carries different g-environments, exposure durations and payload constraints. We match your investigation to the platform, and can step you up the ladder as your work matures.

Parabolic (0-10km)

Repeated ~20–25 second windows of true microgravity across a single flight campaign. The fastest, lowest-cost way to iterate: shake down hardware, run human physiology protocols, or observe fluid and combustion behaviour dozens of times in one day.

Best for rapid iteration, hardware validation

Stratospheric (30-50km)

High-altitude balloon flight into the near-space environment: extreme cold, low pressure and elevated radiation, sustained for hours rather than seconds. A cost-effective proving ground for materials, optics, sensors and atmospheric science ahead of a rocket commitment.

Best for materials, optics, atmospheric science

Suborbital (>250 km)

Past the Kármán line for several minutes of true, uninterrupted microgravity, with higher g-loads at launch and re-entry. This is the pathway behind Cambrian's HAEMBIOSPACE mission, flying biological samples for cancer research on SSC Space's MAPHEUS-17 sounding rocket.

Best for biological samples, fluid dynamics

Orbital & low Earth orbit (350-450km)

Sustained microgravity from days to months aboard orbital platforms, including current and next generation stations. For investigations that need time, not just weightlessness, to reveal an effect.

Best for longitudinal biology, pharma

Nearly 60 years of flight heritage, working quietly in the background

Getting an experiment safely into a launch vehicle is its own discipline: structural qualification, thermal control, power, telemetry, range safety. Cambrian and its launch partners carry that heritage so you don't have to build it from scratch. Our role is to translate a research question into a flight-ready payload, integrate it onto a proven vehicle, and hand your data and samples back. You design the investigation. We design the box it flies in.

SIX DECADES

Combined partner flight heritage spans close to six decades of parabolic, suborbital and orbital missions

PAYLOAD

Structural, thermal and power design carried out for you, matched to platform constraints

INTEGRATION

Launch integration and range safety handled through established partner relationships

RETURN

Sample recovery, data downlink and post-flight handling managed end to end

LAUNCH PARTNERS

SSC Space - Suborbital & Orbital Launch

World-leading sounding rocket (regular launch) and orbital launch capability (2028), including Esrange Space Centre, Sweden.

Regional Flight Network - Parabolic & Stratospheric

Established parabolic flight and high-altitude balloon operators across the northern hemisphere and Australasian region.

Cambrian Defence & Space - Mission & Payload Integration -

Structural, thermal and power engineering, range coordination and end-to-end mission management.

Explore Space Access Opportunities

Whether you're developing new technologies, advancing biomedical research or exploring the possibilities of microgravity, Cambrian can help connect your organisation to the right mission, platform and partners. Speak with our team to explore what's possible.