Fully automated laboratory heads into orbit to test food production in space

Can We Grow Food in Space? Automated Lab Sent into Orbit to Find Out

Growing food on future spacecraft. Credit: NASA Frontier Space has launched a fully automated lab into orbit to explore whether food production is possible beyond Earth. The mission, part of a European Space Agency project, aims to tackle one of the biggest challenges in long-distance space travel: sustainable food supply. The lab, carrying three experiments, lifted off on April 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It traveled inside a re-entry c…

Fully automated laboratory heads into orbit to test food production in space

Cranfield University spin-out company Frontier Space has sent a fully automated laboratory into orbit as part of a European Space Agency project to assess the viability of creating lab-grown food in microgravity.

The spin-out company of the University of Cranfield, Frontier Space, sent a fully automated laboratory in orbit as part of a European Space Agency project to assess the viability of microgravity laboratory food creation. The laboratory contains three payloads and was launched into orbit on board a [...]

Precision Fermentation Takes Off – Into Space

4 Mins Read Scientists have launched a miniature lab into Earth’s orbit, which contains microbes designed to produce proteins in space. Space may be the final frontier, but could it also be the solution to Earth’s food security problems? It’s a question that led to the launch of a mini laboratory into the planet’s orbit this week, containing yeast to produce edible proteins via precision fermentation in space. The project is being spearheaded by…