Deli Platter® NanoSat

Operation: Deli Platter — Original story by Blauw Films
Deli Platter® NanoSat — An Astrobiology Small-Payload Laboratory for Survivability of Living Organisms.
This device can receive manufacturing prompts from an Earthbound terminal to create a wide variety of viruses, diseases and bio-chemical weapons.

The Deli Platter uses a combination of advanced Free Nations technologies to make this device possible.
The manufacturing unit is a Portable Biological Lab System® (PBLS®). Three micro-fluidic modules work together to combine spores, DNA and micro-organisms into the prompted cocktail. The molecules have been loaded into the Deli Platter in an air dried state to impart a condition of stasis, and are rehydrated upon prompting using a growth medium, which causes viable cells to resume growth and reproduction. The PBLS® contains a combination of reservoirs, microfluidic channels, sensors, and valves that control the flow of growth media to the biological specimens in the micro-wells. The growth and quality of the biological specimens is measured via optical absorbance and density, a technique inherited from the open-source PharmaSat mission.
The prompted payload is investigated for quality, stability and degradation through the use of UV-visible spectroscopy with the use of LED light and a sapphire gemstone filter. The approved specimen is loaded into a thin-film coated capsule that works as a hermetically sealed microenvironment with a stable simulated atmosphere. The sealed container is loaded into an 11-mm diameter housing that is ready for firing back to planet Earth. This technology is called Orbital Precision Earthbound Needle® (OPEN®). The needle container is made of titanium and sustains the increased stress of entering Earth's atmosphere. Upon successfully hitting its target a valve is opened releasing the microorganisms into the air. It makes use of a catalyser that hyper stimulates carrying of the microorganisms in oxygen. The valve uses a rotating mechanism that calibrates itself agains the wind direction, thus maintaining the desired path of the Deli Platter's payload through the air.

Due to a combination of limited onboard data storage space and comparatively high data generation rates there is a requirement for routine data downloads. For this there is an operations crew sworn to secrecy that works continuous shifts at the terminal bunker.