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This Canadian company is getting ready to grow food on the moon - The Logic thelogic.co/news/canadensy…

We are so proud of Rodger and the Trial Gardens! This Friday and Saturday we will celebrate 25 Years of flowers at the Guelph Turfgrass Institute. Join us in this celebration, which is supported by Ontario Seed Company, City of Guelph Healthy Landscapes, and Barenbrug. For more info and to RSVP, visit #Garden" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">guelphturfgrass.ca/fielddays#Gard…

Canadensys continues collaborative international lunar agriculture work Canadensys has received a Task Authorization from the Canadian Space Agency (@csa_asc) to continue work on the development of a Ground Test Demonstrator (GTD) for a future Lunar Agriculture Module (LAM). This program, which is a collaboration between the Canadian and German space agencies, looks to design, produce, and operate a full-scale, closed-loop, remotely monitored and controlled lunar agriculture system, simulating operations on the lunar surface. The Task Authorization continues our work on the LAM-GTD, ongoing since 2023, and allows further refinement of Canadensys concept designs for plant growth racks, nutrient delivery, lighting, and plant health monitoring. Canadensys is supported by our extended team from the Controlled Environmental Systems Research Facility at the University of Guelph (@uofg) and from the Biomass Production Lab at McGill University (@mcgillu). The LAM-GTD effort is one of several projects at Canadensys aimed at enabling plant growth and bio-regenerative life support systems, which will be vital for long-duration crewed space missions, on the Moon, on Mars, and beyond. Through these projects, we have matured some of the key technologies needed for such systems, and also laid the foundations for demonstrating controlled environment agriculture missions on the Moon. At our core, Canadensys is a space exploration company. Our efforts in sending scientific instruments to the Moon, building Canada’s first lunar rover (for scientific exploration), developing a large Lunar Utility Vehicle (to provide logistics infrastructure capability), and being a key supplier to various international commercial exploration missions are helping open up space exploration for humanity. The LAM-GTD and our other plant growth projects are aligned with our vision for a long-term human presence beyond Earth’s orbit. If this is a vision you share, have a look at our Careers page at canadensys.com.

This year’s final simulated trip to Mars is underway! Four volunteers stepped inside the tiny HERA habitat yesterday to live & work like astronauts for 45 days, helping @NASA study the effects of isolation & confinement on crews during deep-space missions. Best of luck, HERA crew!

Connor making sure everything is ready for testing the Lunar Exploration Agriculture Feasibility Project's moisture control hardware prototype. System performance over a simulated Lunar day/night will be evaluated using barley and oats as our test subjects.

One week to go! 📆 Join us on Mar. 28, at 4PM ET for an exciting info session celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth. - Learn about the history of @WomenNASA - NASA Internships 101 - Life as a @NASA Intern - Q and A Session Register: go.nasa.gov/3VF7zV2

Elevate Farms set to expand in both the US and EU. Well that is good news! #GravityFlow #FutureofFood - go.shr.lc/49rt9LV

🍎 Helping kids eat well will transform their future — and Canada’s 🇨🇦 📢#ICYMI📰@Feeding9Billion & my latest on how a #NationalSchoolFoodProgram would immediately help w/ #affordability, putting more money back into families' pockets. 👪💰 @TheTyee buff.ly/3UPVTJP

Plant Canada 2024 is now open for event registration and abstract submission! This event is taking place on July 6-10 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a joint meeting for all societies, and will represent the CSPB-SCBV Annual General Meeting for 2024. phytopath.ca/meetings/plant…

The Intuitive Machines-1 mission has landed on the Moon! Congratulations to @Canadensys1 Aerospace and @MDA_space Ltd . Theirs are the first Canadian technologies to reach the Moon since the Apollo missions.

At least Mikey still likes it, because he eats anything.

Are you interested in learning about current environmental sciences research? Join grad students from @UofG_SES on February 27 for a day of learning. Register at bit.ly/3RXTCZY @UofGResearch @OMAFRAinnovates

We are thrilled that Odysseus has successfully landed on the lunar surface, and thank and congratulate our partners at @Int_Machines, @NASA, the @ILOA_Hawaii, @EmbryRiddle, and the @csa_asc! Our team in the Canadensys Lunar Mission Control Centre is excited to begin the surface operations.  With a total of seven various Canadensys high-resolution lunar imaging systems on this mission, we are expecting more great images as the mission continues on the surface of the Moon.

Today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day!👩🏾‍🔧👩🏻‍🔧 Celebrate by introducing your students to Callie Rodriguez, the star of @NASA's First Woman graphic novel series (available in English & Spanish). Download the interactive series, lessons & more! nasa.gov/stem-content/f…

Interested in the University of Guelph's Bachelor of One Health (BOH) program? If so, watch this new promotional video featuring Drs. Travis Steffens, Ryan Prosser & several of the BOH students!: tinyurl.com/2zw3fy79 Find out more: uoguel.ph/i27kf #OneHealth @UofGCBS

Join us at #IFAO2024 to get the down-low on what the biology is getting up to in our soils with @karidunfield Register today! 2024IFAO.eventbrite.ca @LauraVanEerd, @OACAlumni

@lewseylab @plants4space @KimLJohnson4 @LIMSLTU Space certainly is a fantastic way to engage our future astronauts. Check out @Tomatosphere, an educational outreach program that has been running since 2001. The kids are going to love @plants4space !

The @plants4space engagement team @KimLJohnson4 and Frazer Thorpe explaining how space is a fantastic lens for education and outreach @LIMSLTU Victorian Space research day

Have you thought about pursuing a career in engineering? Ever been curious what a day in the life looks like for a NASA engineer? We're hosting a @Reddit AMA for #NationalEngineersWeek—stop by and share today, Feb. 20, starting at 3:30pm ET (2030 UTC): reddit.com/r/engineering/

#UofG was pleased to welcome MP @ElizabethMay and Leader of the @CanadianGreens to campus to demonstrate our excellence in research and academics. Today, we showcased how the innovative research at the CESRF is helping to improve how plants are grown in Canada.

After a covid shutdown and then an overhaul that included new boxes (with doors !) and new custom CO2/T/RH/kPa sensors, the nine small hypobaric chambers are ready for action. The second gen water cooled 8-channel @IntravisionLS LED arrays still rock the spectrum.