GeneSat-1 is a NASA fully automated, CubeSat spaceflight system that provides life support for bacteria E. Coli K-12.

[1] GeneSat-1 began to transmit data on its first pass over the mission's California ground station.

Knowledge gained from GeneSat-1 is intended to aid scientific understanding of how spaceflight affects the human body.

In the development of the GeneSat satellite class (at a fraction of what it normally costs to conduct a mission in space), Ames Research Center (Small Spacecraft Office) collaborated with organisations in industry and also universities local to the center.

It is NASA's first fully automated, self-contained biological spaceflight experiment on a satellite of its size.