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New Project
Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway (LOP-G)
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Rendering: courtesy of NASA
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LSG is supporting AIRBUS Bremen with the preliminary design study for the European/International Habitat Module for the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) currently being designed and developed by the International Space Station Partners.
LOP-G is a planned as a lunar-orbit space station thus providing in the future, a staging point deeper into space for exploring the moon, Mars and other parts of the solar system.
The LOP-G space station will serve as an all-in-one solar-powered communications hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation module, and holding area for rovers and other robots.
Team:
AIRBUS, Germany
Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Sener, Spain
Qinetiq, Belgium
Spaceapplications Service, Belgium
LIQUIFER Systems Group
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Swiss Chard grown in Antarctica, DLR 2018
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School children are invited to join our mission!
This month, EDEN ISS launches its Seed Campaign Competition inviting school children ages 6-12 to learn about growing fruits and vegetables in controlled-environments, and to contribute original artwork based on two themes related to the project.
THEME 1 - Depict the EDEN ISS mobile greenhouse container in an environment of your choice. (ideas: in Antarctica where it is presently, any place on earth that can benefit from a supply of fresh food, also think about where in space you can imagine growing fresh fruits and vegetables, like on the moon or Mars!)
THEME 2 - Imagine yourself working inside an enclosed greenhouse surrounded by your favorite fruits and vegetables. What would your garden look like?
For each submission, a Seed Transport Package (STP) with 10 lettuce seeds that have been in Antarctica will be sent to participants with an invitation to cultivate the lettuce from seed to salad.
Twenty winners will be announced and their work will be uploaded to the project website. In addition, they will receive an EDEN ISS Mission Patch.
The competition starts on 24. October 2018, and ends 15. December 2018. Submissions are accepted online through the eden-iss website.
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Mission Update
The EDEN ISS mission in Antarctica is currently in its eighth month, as plant cultivation technologies in a closed container are producing good harvests. In total, more than 180 kilograms of edible fresh biomass has been harvested. DLR scientist Paul Zabel is based in Antarctica to oversee the plant experiments and to maintain all operating equipment and hardware of the facility until 18. December 2018, when the mission operation formally comes to a close.
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 636501
International cooperation at EDEN ISS
Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft - Und Raumfahrt Ev (DLR), Germany
LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG), Austria
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
University Of Guelph, Canada
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz- Zentrum Fuer Polar- Und Meeresforschung (AWI), Germany
Enginsoft Spa (ES), Italy
Airbus Defense and Space, Germany
Thales Alenia Space Italia Spa, Italy
Aero Sekur S.p.A., Italy
Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (DLO), the Netherlands
Heliospectra AB, Sweden
Limerick Institute Of Technology (LIT), Ireland
Telespazio SPA, Italy
University of Florida, USA
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URBAN Conceiving a Lunar Base Using 3D Printing Technologies
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URBAN is an eleven-month study conducted by four partners for ESA’s General Studies Program; it will finish in November 2018.
The project looks at the feasibility of producing much of the needed infrastructure, machinery, long-duration goods and on-demand items that are associated with a 3-phase lunar base through additive manufacturing technologies.
A thorough exploration of state-of-the-art 3D-printing processes and associated printing materials for each process is conducted, with a specialized interest in identifying materials that already exist on the moon, or that can be recycled from the spacecraft arriving from earth.
The overall goal of the project is to devise a plan for reducing the up-launch requirements for building and maintaining a growing lunar base.
The outcome of the study is a searchable database – which provides a matrix for understanding the concurrencies and potential overlaps in the independent variables (1) Items required for 3-phase lunar base, (2) AM technologies, (3) Materials.
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5 November 2018
Conjectural futures - Berlin, Germany
(5-6 November 2018)
2 days of foresight talks and workshops for strategists, foresighters, innovators and designers
On all conceivable plans for the future, diverse positions are shared and discussed. Barbara Imhof is invited to participate in Session1: (Inter-) planetary Conjectures along with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and Arne Hendriks.
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6 November 2018 - Lecture
Weißensee Art Academy - Berlin, Germany
SPACE SUIT extended focuses on the mobile interface between humans and the environment; the intermediate ‘third skin,’ or spacesuit that allows expansion of experience to a temporary field of life and action.
Barbara Imhof, guest lecturer with Christiane Sauer, professor for Material and Design in a Spatial Context, Vice Rector for Networking and Knowledge Transfer
Photo courtesy of NASA
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6-7 September 2018 - Conference
FUTURE PORT - Prague, Czech Republic
Future Port Prague, founded in 2017, in an annual event that draws a large international number of leading professionals from around the globe, with visionary ideas and practices on how technology can be used to dramatically shape the future.
René Waclavicek of LSG delivered talks on Liquifer projects Regolight – Sintering regolith with solar light, and URBAN – Conceiving a Lunar Base sing 3D Printing Technologies. List of guest speakers
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8-12 September 2018 - Festival
BE OPEN - Science & Society Festival
Vienna, Austria
Thousands of visitors and hundreds of researchers transformed Vienna’s Maria-Theresien-Platz into a garden of curiosity and fascination.
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund, the five-day, open-air science festival was made open to the public outside the Museum of Natural History, Vienna.
Leading Austrian researchers in science and society-related studies were invited to present their work in one of the eighteen pop-up pavilions each devoted to an important theme, and to engage persons of all ages through exhibition, demonstration and person to person engagement for answering and asking questions.
The Living Architecture pavilion was organized by Barbara Imhof and Waltraut Hoheneder together with the Angewandte. Aspects of their collaborative FWF project GrAB (Growing As Building) were presented for introducing the public to the topic of biomimetics and integrating biology into architecture.
Photo credit Bruno Stubenrauch
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30 September 2018 - Symposium
Building Beyond - Bremen, Germany
as part of the International Astronautical Congress 2018
What does the future look like for buildings, cities and habitats on and off the planet?
Invited speakers discuss the operational field of space architecture and its potential to impact future space exploration and terrestrial building practices.
Invited speakers:
Angelo Vermeulen, artist/biologist, Delft University of Technology, Starship Design
Barbara Imhof, space architect, design researcher, LIQUIFER Systems Group, Vienna, Austria
Daniel Schubert, space engineer, DLR, Bremen, Germany
Jan Dierck, architect, specialist modeling group, Foster & Partner, London, UK
Brent Sherwood, architect, author, engineer, mission planning, NASA JPL, Pasadena, USA
The session was moderated by: Christina Ciardullo, architect, researcher, SEARCH +LLC, New York, USA
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