AbstractBased on a formerly developed ground-based prototype of space plant-growing facility, the development of its improved prototype has been finished, so as to make its operating principle better adapt to the space microgravity environment. According to the developing experience of its first generation prototype and detailed demonstration and design of technique plan, its blueprint design and machining of related components, whole facility installment, debugging and trial operations were all done gradually. Its growing chamber contains a volume of about 0.5m3 and a growing area of approximate 0.5m2; the atmospheric environmental parameters in the growing chamber and water content in the growing media were controlled totally and effectively; lighting source is a combination of both red and blue light emitting diodes (LED). The following demonstrating results showed that the entire system design of the prototype is reasonable and its operating principle can nearly meet the requirements of space microgravity environment. Therefore, our plant-growing technique in space was advanced further, which laid an important foundation for next development of the space plant-growing facility and plant-cultivating experimental research in space microgravity condition.


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    Title :

    Development of an improved ground-based prototype of space plant-growing facility


    Contributors:
    Guo, S. (author) / Liu, X. (author) / Ai, W. (author) / Tang, Y. (author) / Zhu, J. (author) / Wang, X. (author) / Wei, M. (author) / Qin, L. (author) / Yang, Y. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 41 , 5 ; 736-741


    Publication date :

    2007-09-07


    Size :

    6 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English