July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... functions, including air revitalisation and monitoring, water management, pressure control, thermal control and transport, lighting, food production and fire detection. In fact, SNC worked with Orbital Technologies Corporation, for over three years...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
...FEG. In addition to technology development and validation, food safety and plant handling procedures will be developed. These...with slow release fertilizer) Reliable, safe and high quality food production (as the next step to the great achievements by ...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... control. Here it is used to contain, transport and store food in the best state possible while moving across the city. A..., whether that person is travelling for business or pleasure. Food Keeper design by students from the Politecnico di Milano. A...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... or produce alcohol, unless they are able to reliably grow food on the surface. Research projects are underway to investigate whether ...The primary purpose for such crops would be to provide food for crew members but, as astro-farming becomes more ...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... on mizuna leaves in spaceflight and analysis of the dietary characteristics showed that space-grown mizuna biomass conforms to food safety and nutritional content standards. Increases in the T-value, an index of overall air impurity on the ISS, did...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...The agricultural sector alone will need to produce 70 percent more food in 2050 than in 2006 in order to feed the growing ... crop yield. Assembling the M6P nano-satellite. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN) believes ...
