The Food Beyond Gravity project is developing technology for food production in outer space using closed-loop to recycle nutrients, using multiple stages of fermentation.
The original concept design has been done by Cx Bio and partners and funded by a natural gas industry company. Additional funding has been raised via quadratic funding. Another tier of funding will be sought by Cx Bio from the European Space Agency OSIP grants.
In light of the complex nature of the system with multiple subsystems, the FBG technology lends itself well to an open science project development. We plan to make work on the project open-access, enabling diverse people to contribute to sub-systems. We hope to raise funds to compensate their contributions. We may consider working with a bioDAO (ValleyDAO or bio.xyz) to generate IP-NFTs.
The Cx Bio team will lead this in the initial phases and is currently assembling a manuscript for peer-reviewed publication, which will be submitted within 3 months. The funding from this round will contribute to a) completing the manuscript and b) preparing a pool of funds to reward contributors to the FBG subsystems, c) funding Cx Bio team for the application process to OSIP.
