The preliminary design of the EDEN ISS Mobile Test Facility - An Antarctic greenhouse

• Main Authors: Zabel, Paul, Bamsey, Matthew, Zeidler, Conrad, Vrakking, Vincent, Schubert, Daniel, Romberg, Oliver, Boscheri, Giorgio, Dueck, Tom
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 46th International Conference on Environmental Systems 2016
• Subjects: crop production in space; greenhouse module; analogue test; Horizon2020; Antarctic; Neumayer; Neumayer Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2346/67590

Germany Italy Netherlands German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thales Alenia Space Italia Wageningen University and Research 204 ICES204: Bioregenerative Life Support Vienna, Austria Paul Zabel, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Matthew Bamsey, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Conrad Zeidler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Vincent Vrakking, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Daniel Schubert, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Oliver Romberg, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Giorgio Boscheri, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy Tom Dueck, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands The 46th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Vienna, Austria, USA on 10 July 2016 through 14 July 2016. EDEN ISS is a European project to investigate cultivation techniques of plants in space for future bioregenerative life support systems. 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. This paper provides a summary of the activities performed in the design phase of the project. The design phase started with the kick-off meeting in March 2015 and focused on the requirements definition and design of the greenhouse. The EDEN ISS partners met for a design workshop from September 7th to September 18th 2015 in the Concurrent Engineering Facility of DLR’s Institute of Space Systems in Bremen, Germany. The purpose of the workshop was the generation of a preliminary design for the mobile test facility. The mobile test facility will be built later in the project and used to conduct an over one year long experiment campaign beginning in December 2017 in Antarctica. During the two week workshop, the consortium members worked on their respective subsystems and on how their systems can be integrated in the overall greenhouse. The design of each subsystem ...