Created: 2023-07-15
Updated: 2024-10-02
Company - Eternal
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Food for Space
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
Winners of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge
A competition where teams are invited to create a novel and game-changing food technologies or systems that require minimal inputs and maximize safe, nutritious, and palatable food outputs for long-duration space missions, and which have potential to benefit people on Earth.
Mycofood in Space
Eternal has created innovative technology to enable healthy nutrition in long-term spaced missions.
The prototype, no larger than a kitchen appliance, can be modularly introduced into habitats, and spacecrafts.
- ETERNAL’s innovative Food Production System leverages advanced bioprocessing techniques to convert limited resources into a diverse array of food ingredients.
- This system enables the generation of high-protein foods and essential nutrients, following recipes curated by the Company. This phase of testing is crucial to demonstrate the system’s ability to sustain astronauts with a balanced and varied diet.