Interstellar Lab, founded in 2018, is a biotech company that designs, manufactures, and operates controlled-environment biofarms for use on Earth and in space. They develop closed-loop sustainable living systems, including space-grade food production systems and habitat modules, with the goal of enabling life support for long-duration space missions, such as NASA's Artemis Program and future Mars exploration. Interstellar Lab also creates terrestrial solutions like the BioPod, an autonomous greenhouse, partnering with space agencies and private companies to advance space exploration and sustainable practices. Key partners include NASA and ESA, and their work encompasses AI, hardware, and bioscience.
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Existing partners for Haven-1 Lab include Redwire, Yuri, Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS), Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere.
Clients of Forbes Space include Vast, Interstellar Lab, and Space Cargo Unlimited.
Interstellar Lab is developing autonomous greenhouses for commercial space stations and lunar habitation modules.
Interstellar Lab is considering growing unique plants, such as the Pomato, for astronauts in space.
Interstellar Lab of Ivry-sur-Seine, France and Kennedy Space Center, Florida plans to use FLEX to deploy two small plant pods on the lunar surface to measure the impact of the lunar environment on plant phenotype and molecular composition.