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Russian scientists work on greenhouse for ISS

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Russian scientists work on greenhouse for ISS


01.12.2020

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A greenhouse for growing vegetables will appear on the International Space Station in 2021, the project is being prepared by specialists from the Research Institute of Space Instrument Engineering together with the staff of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mir24 reports.

A prototype of the greenhouse, dubbed Vitacycle-T, should be ready next year, the developers said. In addition to these institutes, the project involves the High-Tech Research Institute of Inorganic Materials. The institute staff are working on solving the problem of water supply for plant roots. In zero gravity it is impossible to water them in a natural way - the drops will scatter. Scientists are busy creating porous titanium tubes to deliver water to plant roots, which will be placed in the ground.

It is reported that the greenhouse, which will be a drum with six root modules, will be able to produce more vegetables than previous designs of this type. Work on the greenhouse was first reported two years ago.

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