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CultCube: Experiments in autonomous in-orbit cultivation on-board a 12-Units CubeSat platform.
| العنوان: | CultCube: Experiments in autonomous in-orbit cultivation on-board a 12-Units CubeSat platform. |
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| المؤلفون: | Marzioli P; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: paolo.marzioli@uniroma1.it., Gugliermetti L; Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy., Santoni F; Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy., Delfini A; Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy., Piergentili F; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy., Nardi L; Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 'Casaccia' Research Centre, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy., Metelli G; Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 'Casaccia' Research Centre, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy., Benvenuto E; Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 'Casaccia' Research Centre, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy., Massa S; Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 'Casaccia' Research Centre, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy., Bennici E; Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), 'Casaccia' Research Centre, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy. |
| المصدر: | Life sciences in space research [Life Sci Space Res (Amst)] 2020 May; Vol. 25, pp. 42-52. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 28. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Elsevier Ltd Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 101632373 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2214-5532 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 22145524 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Life Sci Space Res (Amst) Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd, [2014]- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Ecological Systems, Closed*, Life Support Systems/*instrumentation , Solanum lycopersicum/*growth & development, Crop Production/instrumentation ; Life Support Systems/economics ; Space Flight/economics ; Space Flight/instrumentation ; Spacecraft ; Weightlessness |
| مستخلص: | The feasibility and design of the CultCube 12U CubeSat hosting a small Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) for the autonomous cultivation of a small plant in orbit is described. The satellite is aimed at running experiments in fruit plants growing for applications in crewed vehicles for long-term missions in space. CultCube is mainly composed of a pressurized vessel, constituting the outer shell of the ECLSS, and by various environmental controls (water, nutrients, air composition and pressure, light, etc.) aimed at maintaining a survivable habitat for the fruit plants to grow. The plant health status and growth performances is monitored using hyperspectral cameras installed within the vessel, able to sense leaves' chlorophyll content and temperature, and allowing the estimation of plant volume in all its life cycle phases. The paper study case is addressed to the in-orbit experimental cultivation of a dwarf tomato plant (MicroTom), which was modified for enhancing the anti-oxidants production and for growing in stressful environments. While simulated microgravity tests have been passed by the MicroTom plant, the organism behaviour in a real microgravity environment for a full seed-to-seed cycle needs to be tested. The CultCube 12U CubeSat mission presents no particular requirements on the kind of orbit, whereas its minimum significative duration corresponds to one seed-to-seed cycle for the plant, which is 90 days for the paper study case. In the paper, after an introduction on the importance of an autonomous testbed for plant cultivation, in the perspective of the implementation of bioregenerative systems on-board future manned long-term missions, the satellite design and the MicroTom engineered plant for in-orbit growth are described. In addition to the description of the whole set of subsystems, with focus on the payload and its controllers and instrumentation, the system budgets are presented. Finally, the first tests conducted by the authors are briefly reported. (Copyright © 2020 The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.) |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Bioregenerative systems; CubeSat; Environmental control and life support system; In-orbit cultivation; Micro-Tom |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20200517 Date Completed: 20210119 Latest Revision: 20221207 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240513 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lssr.2020.02.005 |
| PMID: | 32414492 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2214-5532 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lssr.2020.02.005 |