Redwire to Develop First Commercial Space Greenhouse to Improve Crop Science on Earth and Support Future Space Exploration Missions
16 8월 2022 - 8:00PM
Business Wire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced
today that it will be developing the only commercially owned and
operated spaceflight-qualified plant growth platform capable of
growing plants from seed to maturity in space. Redwire Greenhouse,
scheduled to launch to space no earlier than spring 2023, will be
the first-ever commercially owned greenhouse installed on the
International Space Station (ISS). Commercial agricultural
technology company Dewey Scientific is expected to be Redwire’s
customer for the inaugural flight. Redwire Greenhouse will deliver
valuable insights for crop scientists on Earth and significantly
expand humanity’s ability to grow full crops in space.
“Redwire Greenhouse will expand opportunities for scientific
discovery to improve crop production on Earth and enable critical
research for crop production in space to benefit future
long-duration human spaceflight,” said Dave Reed, Redwire Florida
Launch Site Operations Director and Greenhouse project manager.
“Growing full crops in space will be critical to future space
exploration missions as plants provide food, oxygen and water
reclamation. Increasing the throughput of crop production research
in space, through commercially developed capabilities, will be
important to deliver critical insights for NASA’s Artemis missions
and beyond.”
The Redwire Greenhouse will provide a simple, scalable
commercial solution for customers seeking to advance crop science
from benchtop laboratory facilities to true production in space.
Along with supporting long-term NASA exploration plans, the Redwire
Greenhouse also will provide unprecedented accessibility to
institutional and commercial customers with various plant science
and industrial research goals. Its 2023 in-space demonstration will
validate the facility's concept of operations and evaluate its
lighting, ventilation and leaf litter containment capabilities.
During the inaugural flight, Dewey Scientific will grow
industrial hemp in the Greenhouse for a gene expression study. The
company collaborated with Redwire, contributing technical details
about the 60-day experiment and describing its potential to
demonstrate the capabilities of the facility, while advancing
biomedical and biofuels research.
“Building on our long track record of partnering with commercial
organizations like Tupperware, Eli Lilly and now Dewey Scientific,
Redwire Greenhouse is another groundbreaking step forward in
Redwire’s demonstrated leadership in establishing a viable
commercial economy in low-Earth orbit. Through partnerships with
Redwire, space is open for business,” said John Vellinger,
Redwire’s Executive Vice President of In-Space Manufacturing and
Operations.
The Redwire Greenhouse will leverage already flight-qualified
Redwire plant growth technology, including Passive Orbital Nutrient
Delivery System (PONDS) devices developed in partnership with
Tupperware Brands and currently operated by Redwire on the ISS.
Larger, scalable versions of the Greenhouse can be flown for
customers with varying crop-growing requirements or alternate plant
support systems. Besides PONDS, Redwire has managed plant
investigations in the NASA-owned Advanced Plant Habitat since
2018.
The Redwire Greenhouse is being developed through an award from
the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, manager of the
ISS U.S. National Laboratory.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, with valuable
IP for solar power generation and in-space 3D printing and
manufacturing. With decades of flight heritage combined with the
agile and innovative culture of a commercial space platform,
Redwire is uniquely positioned to assist its customers in solving
the complex challenges of future space missions. For more
information, please visit www.redwirespace.com.
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Media Contact: Tere Riley Tere.Riley@redwirespace.com
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Dewey Scientific Principle Investigator Contact:
Michael Mortimer mmortimer@deweysci.com 208-596-5884
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