February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... be canned or dehydrated only. Next (if an on-board greenhouse is available), fresh plant foods, and even freshly baked bread... the ration. The Moon’s partial gravity will allow a greenhouse harvest to be processed (e.g. milling wheat into flour) and...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...for the first time require businesses to report their greenhouses gas emissions and how their businesses are impacted by ...change in a wide range of applications such as greenhouse gas detection, building energy efficiency, weather forecasting, ...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... concepts were4: WiRM, a wind pencil-beam scatterometer for wind resource assessment and offshore operations; GEM, a greenhouse gas (GHG) mission based on a SWIR spectro-imager to measure emissions of CO2 and CH4 for GHG emission...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
... man Over a decade ago, ESA defined the nine basic food plants that should be grown in space greenhouses and supply at least 40% of the astronauts’ diet, whether on the Moon, other planets or in space vehicles. They are...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... crew living areas and is connected via 3D-printed passageways with the sub-habitats. These house a laboratory, greenhouse, garage airlock and other required working areas. There are a number of reasons to adopt a hybrid approach of purely...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... human landings, that capability must increase at least twenty-fold. A surface outpost on Mars, complete with a hydroponic greenhouse to supply food to the colonists Astronauts will need a surface habitat during their stay on Mars, to be a shelter...
