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How would we survive out there?

While some people continue to threaten humanity's existence by a nuclear catastrophe, others are bringing closer the childhood dreams of space exploration and taking the challenge of humans becoming a multiplanet species.

Interstellar Lab, a Los Angeles and Paris-based tech startup, has just raised $5 million from several investors to accelerate the manufacturing of their BioPods.

BioPod is a closed-loop sustainable living system for Earth and space combining space-grade food production systems and habitat modules. That is a modular, controlled-environment aeroponics farm, creating the ideal climatic and atmospheric conditions for plant growth. The tech allows cultivating species that cannot be grown in traditional agriculture, including high-value plants like vanilla, vetiver, or patchouli.

BioPod is controlled by AI management and monitoring software. Maximizing efficiency and production, the farm reduces water consumption by 98% and energy (x20) while boosting yield (up to x300).

The company's mission is to develop closed-loop life support systems for lunar missions of NASA's Artemis Program and in the future for Mars exploration. However, the system applications on Earth are not less significant. Sourcing natural ingredients for health, cosmetics, and perfume companies; growing plants locally, efficiently, and all year long, reducing environmental impact; food production in desert zones; protection of endangered plants; providing a solution for universities and scientists for crop and plant research — these are all the challenges BioPod helps to meet.

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