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 ...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... as medical services, the drugs industry and the food industry. Bacteria, for example, are capable of ... decontamination method of ionising radiations - already widely used in the food and drug industry - to the issue of biofilm surface colonisation...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
...satellites (< 50kg) could be launched. Environmental monitoring, food security and climate change are top priorities in political... to global environmental issues (climate change, water and food security, insurance, etc.) or new commercial usage (...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...and perhaps those on Mars too – most believe that fuel, air, food and power supplies will need to be locally sourced. So how realistic...storms and harsh climates on the red planet. Producing food Arguments over who can export and sell commodities like ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... technologies and can be applied to a wide range of materials ranging from metals, polymers and ceramics but also food, living cells and organs. Plastic printing arrived first, initially used for rapid prototyping purposes, but...
