Aerospace Payloads and Related Equipment: Modular Aeromedical Transport System - Spaceflight Equipment - Ground-based Equipment
Modular Aeromedical Transport System (MATS)
The U.S. Air Force currently relies on pre WWII technology to carry patients during transport. But canvas sheets on wooden poles can't meet the wide variety of patient needs, including accommodating medical treatment equipment, such as ventilators, defibrillators, IV pumps and monitors, which accompany critical care patients.

Current aeromedical transport configuration
Under a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Techshot recently
developed a safer, lighter and more comfortable modular patient transport
system, which fully integrates 21st century life support technology.

Techshot MATS system
This technology demonstrator Modular Aeromedical Transport System safely incorporates all monitoring and treatment equipment required by critical patients. Shown are two units attached together, one with the optional medical equipment support module configured for a critical care transport.
Spaceflight Equipment
Shuttle
| STS-51L January 1986 Payload: Chix |
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| STS-29 March 1989 Payload: Chix |
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| STS-57 June 1993 Payload: ORSEP |
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| STS-60 February 1994 Payload: ORSEP |
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| STS-77 May 1996 Payload: ADSEP |
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| STS-95 October 1998 Payload: ADSEP |
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| STS-108 December 2001 Payload: ADF |
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Sub-orbital rocketsConsort 5 Consort 6 Conquest 1 |
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Parabolic flight aircraftTechshot has tested scientific and engineering concepts in microgravity on several flights of NASA KC135 aircraft.
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Ground-Based Equipment
Techshot has been equally involved in developing solutions for ground-based, space-related projects, such as an advanced Mars chamber employed in astrobiology research, and as a co-founder of the Solar Proton Radiobiology Institute at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility.

















