The EDEN ISS Facility as Platform for Plant Experiments in Extreme Environments
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The EDEN ISS Facility as Platform for Plant Experiments in Extreme Environments Raimondo Fortezza1 · Antonio Ceriello1 · Domenico De Simone1 · Daniel Schubert2 · Paul Zabel2 · Conrad Zeidler2 · Vincent Vrakking2 Received: 15 November 2019 / Revised: 29 April 2020 / Accepted: 14 May 2020 © AIDAA Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica 2020
Abstract EDEN ISS is an H2020 project aimed at testing key technologies for plant cultivation in large-scale closed environments for a future implementation in space habitats. In this light, a Future Exploration Greenhouse has been designed, developed and deployed at the highly isolated German Neumayer III Antarctic Station to simulate the harsh conditions of an extra planetary outpost mission and test a typical space operation scenario. The greenhouse has been equipped with all the systems to control the environmental parameters (temperature, relative humidity, light intensity, etc.), and to accommodate and feed the plants during their lifecycle. A camera system has been implemented for plant status assessment via remote image analysis. A command and data handling system provides the capability to configure the experimental set points via software, and can be controlled by remote operators. A Mission Control Centre has been realized at DLR for remote monitoring and control of the facility. The MCC receives all the telemetry and the images and can make them available to other centres, which have been included in the operations loop to provide expert support to the on-site operator. This paper describes the facility and its capabilities as platform for fresh food production experiments in an extreme environment. It is an extended version of a paper presented at the AIDAA Congress 2019, in the Technical Session “Red Planet Exploration”. Keywords Space greenhouse · Plant cultivation · Extreme environment · Bio-regenerative closed loop environmental systems
* Antonio Ceriello [email protected] Raimondo Fortezza [email protected] Domenico De Simone [email protected] Daniel Schubert [email protected] Paul Zabel [email protected] Conrad Zeidler [email protected] Vincent Vrakking [email protected] 1
Telespazio S.p.A., Via Louis Bleriot 82, 80144 Naples, Italy
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Robert‑Hooke‑Straße 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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Abbreviations AMS Atmosphere management system AWI Alfred Wegener Institute BLSS Bioregenerative life support system CDHS Command and data handling system CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) EC Electrical conductivity EDR European Drawer Rack FEG Future exploration greenhouse HD High definition HW Hardware ISPR International Standard Payload Rack ISS International Space Station LIT Limerick Institute of Technology MCC Mission Control Center MTF Mobile test facility NDS Nutrient delivery system NM III Neumayer III PCDS Power control and distribution system PHM Plant health monitoring
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