The in-orbit cultivation of vegetables, fruits, and edible plants is of paramount importance for the development of long-term manned space mission Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) and for the improvement of bio-regenerative systems. GreenCube is a 3U CubeSat mission aimed at demonstrating the functionalities of an autonomous cultivation laboratory that stems from a collaboration between the Sapienza University of Rome, the Italian Space Agency, University of Naples "Federico II", and ENEA. The satellite will cultivate microgreens in a pressurized vessel containing support systems and monitoring instrumentation for the plant growth. This paper describes the GreenCube mission and the instrumentation used for the growth support and monitoring.


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    Title :

    GreenCube: microgreens cultivation and growth monitoring on-board a 3U CubeSat




    Publication date :

    2020-06-01


    Size :

    1263850 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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