A researcher adjusts a bench-top clinostat tumbling a tray of seedlings inside a glass chamber, simulating microgravity for space agriculture research under cool blue lab light.

Three Countries, No Orbit: A Different Kind of Space Farm

Some space farming starts on the ground. According to the Italian news agency AISE, an Italy-Brazil-Angola partnership coordinated by the IILA organisation, backed by Italy’s foreign ministry, has opened its first phase of work on space agriculture, and none of it happens in orbit. Continuer de lire Three Countries, No Orbit: A Different Kind of Space Farm

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Young rice seedlings growing in a shallow water tray, seen through the porthole of a space station module bathed in cyan light.

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Rice Just Cleared Its First Checkpoint in Orbit

Aboard Tiangong, the Shenzhou-23 crew harvested the first rice samples in a bid to grow two full generations in orbit without sending a seed back to Earth. Continuer de lire Rice Just Cleared Its First Checkpoint in Orbit

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Three Countries, No Orbit: A Different Kind of Space Farm

Rice Just Cleared Its First Checkpoint in Orbit