Fig. 3. Examples of optical microscopy setups for microgravity research.

a FLUMIAS is a miniaturised high-resolution 3D fluorescence microscope coupled to a centrifuge on the International Space Station (ISS) for live cell imaging. FLUMIAS can therefore be operated in microgravity as well as in controlled artificial gravity conditions with an effective gravitational acceleration of up to 1.1×g. Reprinted from C. S. Thiel et al.²⁷; use permitted by authors of original publication. b The RAMSES flight platform is designed for the sounding rocket MAPHEUS to study the motion of self-propelled particles in space. Reprinted from R. Keßler et al.⁷¹, with the permission of AIP Publishing. c Optical microscopy setup used on the Airbus Zero-G for the acoustic manipulation of dense gold nanorods samples in microgravity. Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature Customer Service Centre GmbH: Springer, G. Dumy et al.⁷⁶, Copyright 2020 Springer Nature.