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Table 2 Historical overview of exercise countermeasure hardware available on ISS for ESA’s eight long-duration missions to the International Space Station (ISS)

From: Exercise in space: the European Space Agency approach to in-flight exercise countermeasures for long-duration missions on ISS

Year

Hardware used by ESA crew on ISS

ESA mission

2000–2009

Treadmill (TVIS, BD-1)

LDM 1–3

2000–2009

Resistive exercise device (iRED)

LDM 1–3

2009–

Treadmill (T2), resistive exercise device (ARED)

LDM 3–8

2013–

Treadmill BD-2

LDM 6–8

2001–

Cycle ergometer (CEVIS, VELO)

LDM 1–8

  1. iRED interim resistive exercise device; ARED advanced resistive exercise device; TVIS treadmill with vibration isolation and stabilisation system; T2 2nd generation treadmill; BD-1/, BD-2 (Roscosmos) “Begushaya Dorozhka 1/2”; CEVIS cycle ergometer with vibration isolation and stabilisation system; VELO Russian cycle ergometer
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