astraland
NATURE AMONG THE STARS
ABOUT US
AstraLand strives to provide a feasible aerospace farming solution that allows long-term expeditions to Mars while maintaining astronauts’ physical and mental health at its best. To accomplish this, the existing ISS systems are being harnessed and revamped in order to achieve their optimal performance. Taking into consideration phytoplankton’s properties and benefiting from the ARTEMIS program, the proposed mission is to conduct an experiment on the moon to develop a suitable environment to grow crops.
01 have seeds will travel
The first viable food system for long-duration exploration missions
There is still no viable food system for long-term exploration in deep space missions, and we are facing the second space race in which it is sought to take humans to Martian soil, so the design of these systems is urgent.
Thanks to nearly 20 years of continuous human habitation on the ISS, future Mars-class life support systems can be designed with a 36% reduction in mass. Mars systems will require less maintenance and fewer spares, making them much safer than current operational systems. These improved life support and environmental control technologies demonstrated on ISS have already been incorporated in Orion and will be put to the test on Artemis II.
The plan is to benefit from the ARTEMIS program. This will allow us to conduct experiments and test prototypes of the cropping system to ensure its success once it is taken to Mars.
02 Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that live in aqueous environments, both salty and fresh. More than 50% of the oxygen in our world is produced thanks to phytoplankton. Its function is fundamental in the life of the planet: it consists in carrying out photosynthesis, a process in which water, nutrient salts, carbon dioxide and solar radiation intervene, which culminates in the production of oxygen and the formation of various organic compounds such as carbohydrates and proteins.
In reality, plankton feed the world. One type of phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, release countless tons of oxygen into the atmosphere and have become famous for being the most abundant photosynthetic organism on the planet. According to National Geographic Specialist Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, Prochlorococcus is estimated to provide oxygen for one out of every five breaths we take. Taking this information into account, phytoplankton would be a very feasible way of generating oxygen for astronauts through acclimatized capsules that are capable of transporting it in order to prevent them from dying or being affected.
03 PROJECTION
2022-2023
ARTEMIS II
Planned for launch in late 2022, this will be a pioneering crewed spaceflight for the Artemis Program, taking humans further than they've ever been in space.
After being launched into space by the SLS rocket, the four-person crew will fly the Orion module 8889 km beyond the Moon, complete a lunar flyby and return to Earth. The mission will take between eight to ten days and collect valuable flight test data. This would be the first step to try our phytoplankton system on the LOP-G.
2024
MOON LABS
Phytoplankton system tests in lunar laboratories, after humanity returns to the moon, the idea is to establish a lunar base, the large laboratory will be used to test the entire system, AstraLand can also be used in these laboratories, the reason behind this is that there is no defined system of what is going to be used in this future scientific camp, so to use it it is recommended to carry out previous tests in LOP-G
2025
MARS (The real challenge)
Once the systems are approved and we develop the technology to generate enough oxygen to leave Mars too, we will reach our goal, we will put together the technologies within the ISS for the sustenance of the astronauts, together with the Veggie project and the plankton system to compensation for missing oxygen, we solve this challenge.
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