A development project that aims to craft strategies to create advanced resource-recycling food supply systems to support long-term lunar stays among other uses.
A consortium with SPACE FOODSPHERE as its representative organization is promoting the research and development of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’(MAFF) Development of Advanced Resource-recycling Food Supply Systems to Support Long-term Lunar Stays Among Other Uses, a strategy project to be undertaken as a part of the Japanese Cabinet Office’s Space Development Utilization Acceleration Program (Stardust Program). The final goal of this project is to develop demonstration models for advanced resource-recycling food supply systems and QOL management systems that are novel and superior compared to global competitors, and to design a co-creative demonstration platform necessary for the demonstration of these systems.
e aim to develop a sub-scale functional demonstration model of an internationally unique and competitive resource-recycling food system that can sustainably secure almost all the nutrients and quality of life needed by four or more people.
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The project aims to develop QOL management systems that are capable of supporting the maintenance of the mental and physical health as well as the interpersonal relationships of a crew of four or more people. Such a system will constitute of QOL observation systems that allow for continuous accurate situational assessments during long-term stays as well as demonstration models for food solutions geared towards environments marred by resource scarcity.
We will design mock lunar base facilities to run integrated demonstrations of the systems developed as solutions to Issue 01 and 02 outlined above. In order to implement our systems on the Moon in the future, we will design and develop prototype space experiment modules to verify the biological effects of living in an extraterrestrial environment.
