May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... that satellite data cannot make up for the practices, cultures and local expertise available in every different farm community. It is therefore vital that independent agencies such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization develop indicators that...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... on the whole to keep our organisms in tone”. Space farming Despite the current restrictions on consuming alcohol in space, there... to provide food for crew members but, as astro-farming becomes more efficient, some of the agricultural products will ...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... and B vitamins too. As a result, balanced space meals in the future could well be made up of carbohydrate-rich vegetables farmed in space, complemented by dishes made of protein-rich Solein produced onboard. However, we yearn for more from food...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... agricultural revolution of roughly 10,000 years ago transformed humans from hunter-gatherers to farmers. A new kind of farming lifestyle greatly increased the ability of human communities to capture energy and enabled a hundredfold increase in human...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... a job as the education and outreach officer at one of NASA’s Deep Space Network tracking stations, located in a beautiful farming valley just outside of the capital city of Australia. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is one...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... of Earth. With ecological and sustainable aspects in mind, the only way to reach those numbers is by using precision farming to massively increase crop yield. Assembling the M6P nano-satellite. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
