Will it grow into space?!

High-Level Project Summary

Our project is based on greenhouses with APH device configurations:-Temperature -relative humidity-CO2 concentration-Ethylene purification-Light level, quality, and duration-Water delivery-O2 concentration-room pressure-Ventilation flow rate (.3 to 1.5 m/s)-Get data-Photography-internal cameras (visible and IR)-The cultivation process is applied to the pea plant and thyme, as peas contain vitamin C and E in addition to minerals and protein. It is important to provide astronauts with vitamin C, as it is a major cause of some health problems, because food loses vitamins over time, as more will be grown as efficiently as APH because its compounds will be supplied in greenhouses.

Detailed Project Description

Providing food to 211B stations makes the possibility of food growing during the flight an intriguing one. Reclaiming and cultivating space would help create a permanent environment for plants in which sewage and human waste could be recycled and air onboard the spaceship purified. This essentially turns the spaceship into an industrial ecosystem with a hydrological cycle along with the recycling of nutrients.

What are greenhouses?

These greenhouses, of whatever kind, glass or plastic, are called greenhouses, because they protect plants from pests and the heat of the sun. more heat.

 The purpose of the greenhouses:

The goal of planting in greenhouses is to provide crops untimely, and to protect the plant from harmful pests in the air, which is beneficial for both the person who does the farming and the consumer. And the vegetables that he eats all year round without caring about the seasons, whether they are summer or winter.APH provides accurate control and/or monitoring of:

‒ Temperature

‒ Relative Humidity

‒ CO2 Concentration

‒ Ethylene Scrubbing

‒ Light Level, Quality, and Photoperiod

‒ Water Delivery

‒ O2 Concentration

‒ Chamber Pressure

‒ Ventilation Flow Rate (.3 to 1.5 m/s)

• APH also provides:

‒ Data Acquisition

‒ Imaging

The cultivation process is applied to the pea plant and thyme, as peas contain vitamin C and E in addition to minerals and protein. It is important to provide astronauts with vitamin C, as it is a major cause of some health problems, because food loses vitamins over time, as more will be grown as efficiently as APH because its compounds will be supplied in greenhouses.

I think that peas are one of the best types of vegetables, as they contain vitamin C, E as it contains proteins, carbohydrates and antioxidants, and the thyme plant contains three times more vitamin C than oranges and one of the highest concentrations of this vitamin among all culinary herbs.

The toilet on the International Space Station provides drinking water, but it doesn't work as well as it should. Science journalist Richard Hollingham highlights a technology that enables astronauts to make the most of urine for clean drinking water. Jennifer Pruitt has the most interesting job at NASA, if not in the space world in general. She is the engineer tasked with processing urine on the International Space Station. “The job title is one of the things I love about my job, there are very few people in the world who work in this technology,” says Pruitt proudly. Pruitt works at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on the International Space Station water treatment project. The purpose of her work is to develop the most effective method for extracting drinking water from the urine of astronauts.

Urine is made up of 95 percent water and the rest is made up of chemicals that the body gets rid of, so the more water can be extracted from the urine, the less water will need to be transported from Earth to the International Space Station.

Space Agency Data

https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space We learned about the veggie system and the use of red, green, and blue LED lights

Advanced Plant Habitat The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), like Veggie, is a growth chamber on station for plant research. It uses LED lights and a porous clay substrate with controlled-release fertilizer to deliver water, nutrients, and oxygen to the plant roots. But unlike Veggie, it is enclosed and automated with cameras and more than 180 sensors that are in constant interactive contact with a team on the ground at Kennedy, so it doesn't need much day-to-day care from the crew. Its water recovery and distribution, atmosphere content, moisture levels, and temperature are all automated. It has more colors of LED lights than Veggie, with red, green, and blue lights, but also white, far-red and even infrared to allow for nighttime imaging.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160009489/downloads/20160009489.pdf Through which we got acquainted with the installation of APH to supply greenhouses with it, hence our idea

https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/living-in-space/eating-in-space.asp Learn about how food is in space, how they eat it, and everything around it.

Hackathon Journey

Our knowledge of space has increased, our awareness of the basic understanding of our planet and Mars has increased, we have learned that there may be life on Mars in the future and we have learned teamwork, What inspired this challenge was that we wanted to learn about space, discover new secrets, and exploit Mars to create life on it.

References

  • https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160009489/downloads/20160009489.pdf
  • https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space
  • https://www.actahort.org/books/1134/1134_29.htm
  • Agriculture in the satellite age | Canadian Space Agency (asc-csa.gc.ca)
  • زراعة الفضاء - Wikiwand
  • الزّراعة في الفضاء (phi.science)
  • https://middle-east-online.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%85%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B5%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A9
  • https://www.bbc.com/arabic/vert-fut-39360284
  • https://arabic.euronews.com/2016/07/19/growing-food-in-space-a-tale-of-rats-algae-and-tomatoes
  • https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-c-foods#TOC_TITLE_HDR_20
  • https://ar.goodkitchendesign.com/stages-of-pea-plant-life-cycle_41276
  • https://phys.org/news/2014-02-peas-edibles-experimental-space-greenhouse.html

Tags

# space #plant in space # team work

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