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Item Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration (BIOWYSE) – Testing campaign results(49th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2019-07-07) Locantore, Ilaria; Boscheri, Giorgio; Guarnieri, Vincenzo; Marchitelli, Giovanni; Saverino, Antonio; Lobascio, CesareControl of microbiological contamination within spacecraft is of huge importance for long-duration manned space missions: such systems must guarantee crew well-being, health, and subsistence. The development of materials and methods to prevent, monitor, and mitigate environmental microbial contamination and its harmful effects are thus required. Considering the application of such systems to spacecraft, possible solutions must be safe, automated, lightweight, reliable, efficient, and require minimal energy, consumables, maintenance. This paper reports about BIOWYSE (Biocontamination Integrated Control of Wet Systems for Space Exploration), a project that focuses on the development and demonstration of a compact, integrated, and automated solution (hardware & software) for biocontamination control. The BIOWYSE system is designed to prevent, monitor, and mitigate the risk of microbiological contamination in water systems and humid surfaces onboard ISS and in future human space exploration missions. Automation and synergy of these processes lead to reduction in crew time, decreased energy requirements, procedure simplification, and additional safety measures. Prevention and real-time monitoring, together with an appropriate control system, can reduce the decontamination effort requirement and radically improve efficiency. The BIOWYSE system design and testing campaign results are described in this paper.Item EDEN ISS Rack-like food production unit: results after mission in Antarctica(49th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2019-07-07) Boscheri, Giorgio; Lobascio, Cesare; Zabel, Paul; Marchitelli, Giovanni; Saverino, AntonioPlant cultivation in large-scale closed environments is challenging and several key technologies necessary for space-based plant production are not yet space-qualified or remain in early stages of development. The Horizon2020 EDEN ISS project aims at development and demonstration of higher plant cultivation technologies, suitable for near term deployment on the International Space Station (ISS) and, in a longer term perspective, within Moon and Mars habitats. The EDEN ISS consortium, as part of the performed activities, has designed and built a plant cultivation system having form, fit and function of a European Drawer Rack 2 (EDR II) payload, with a modularity that would allow its incremental installation in the ISS homonymous rack, occupying from one-quarter rack to the full system. The developed system, named RUCOLA (Rack-like Unit for Consistent on-orbit Leafy crops Availability) was completed and tested in a laboratory environment in early 2017. The system was then operated in the highly-isolated German Antarctic Neumayer Station III, in a container-sized test facility to provide realistic mass flow relationships and interaction with a crewed environment. This paper describes the key results of the RUCOLA plant growth facility tests in Antarctica as a space-analogue environment.