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Introducing EDEN ISS - A European project on advancing plant cultivation technologies and operations
Plant cultivation in large-scale closed environments is challenging and several key
technologies necessary for space-based plant production are not yet space-qualified
or remain in early stages of development. The EDEN ISS project foresees
development and demonstration of higher plant cultivation technologies, suitable for
future deployment on the International Space Station and from a long-term
perspective, within Moon and Mars habitats. The EDEN ISS consortium will design
and test essential plant cultivation technologies using an International Standard
Payload Rack form factor cultivation system for potential testing on-board the
International Space Station. Furthermore, a Future Exploration Greenhouse will be
designed with respect to future planetary bio-regenerative life support system
deployments. The technologies will be tested in a laboratory environment as well as
at the highly-isolated German Antarctic Neumayer Station III. A small and mobile
container-sized test facility will be built in order to provide realistic mass flow
relationships. In addition to technology development and validation, food safety and
plant handling procedures will be developed. This paper describes the goals and
objectives of EDEN ISS and the different project phases and milestones.
Furthermore, the project consortium will be introduced and the role of each partner
within the project is explained
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