{"id":97584,"date":"2019-06-02T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97584"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:47:41","slug":"growing-system-nasa-habitat-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/02\/growing-system-nasa-habitat-test\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students test award-winning growing system at <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_23140\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4PdgK_9sSEA?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½students test award-winning growing system at NASA habitat\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>An award-winning autonomous hydroponic growing system called Box Farm, designed and built by engineering students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, was successfully tested at the <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>-funded Inflatable Lunar-Mars Habitat at the University of North Dakota (<abbr>UND<\/abbr>) in May.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because this system is a proof-of-concept prototype, we want to prove the individual tasks it can do,&rdquo; <strong>Preston Tran<\/strong>, the project\u2019s team leader who graduated from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa in May, told <abbr>UND<\/abbr> Today. &ldquo;Once it\u2019s been proven, the system can be expanded to take care of hundreds or thousands of plants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98252\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-space-plants-testing-3.jpg\" alt=\"five people in Inflatable Lunar-Mars Habitat \" width=\"300\" height=\"362\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-space-plants-testing-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-space-plants-testing-3-108x130.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-space-plants-testing-3-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front, Trevor Sorenson, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory Project Manager Trevor and mentor. Back from left, Preston Tran, team leader; James Thesken, system integrator and control subsystems lead; Gabor Paczolay, static subsystems lead; Sean Agpaoa, robotic subsystems lead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The director of <abbr>UND<\/abbr>\u2019s Human Spaceflight Laboratory was impressed. &ldquo;My first look at it is that it is excellent work, very well designed and mechanically very sound, using state-of-the-art technology in some cases,&rdquo; said Pablo de Le&#243;n.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/12\/space-plants-could-be-astronaut-game-changer\/\">Space plants project could be astronaut game changer<\/a>, May 12, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Box Farm team says the system will cut down on manual labor and increase the productivity of crews in space or on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think this is the future,&rdquo; said de Le&#243;n. &ldquo;I\u2019m not one of those people that thinks robots or humans. I think there will be a collaboration between robotic systems and human systems for the future exploration of space and this is an example of that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That vision of the future is moving closer to reality. Tran says he and a couple of Box Farm team members are starting an agricultural technologies company and are developing their business plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trevor Sorenson<\/strong> advised the students on their senior design project for the College of Engineering. He is the project manager for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsfl.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Space plants project could be astronaut game changer<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_57859\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMsXSx5K9Rw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Space plants project could be astronaut game changer\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning autonomous hydroponic growing system called Box Farm, designed and built by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa engineering students, was successfully tested at the NASA-funded Inflatable Lunar-Mars Habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[179,212,1363,1314,174,73,9,56],"class_list":["post-97584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-manoa-research","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-space","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124615,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97584\/revisions\/124615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}