(EDEN) LUNA Test Facility: A Highly Integrated Plant Cultivation and Processing Facility for the Moon

Kurzfassung

EDEN Mobile Test Facility is being refurbished in Bremen, Germany, and its capabilities extended to then be part of the LUNA Analog facility at DLR/ESA in Cologne. LUNA is a shared project between ESA and DLR and funded by the German County of North Rhine Westphalia and DLR. The EDEN-LUNA system is dedicated to the development and testing of critical subsystems and the optimization of fresh food supply with possible applicability to planetary research stations and habitats. The core of the technology development lies in Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA) technologies as the basis for food crop cultivation and their transformation and integration into bio-regenerative life support systems and space-qualified hardware solutions. The presentation gives an introduction to the LUNA Test environment and the current European/German efforts on plant production technology developments for space application based on the EDEN LUNA and LAM-GTD projects.